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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 09:17:00PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > No, I'll leave that to Greg. If you want my 2 (Euro-) Cent I'd rather avoid
> > exposing a dev_t to userspace wherever possible.
>
> Understood. Especially since the recent upsizing of dev_t broke
> applications trying to be too clever about dev_t. However, look at this:
>
> # cat /sys/class/tty/console/dev
> 5:1
>
> Does this major:minor textfile export address your concerns?

No. I'd really love to avoid having any userspace (escept makedev/udev)
to use dev_t as anything but a cookie, i.e. trying to make sense from it.

Having a special raw, non-redirected console device as in Al's patch is
*much* cleaner.
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