Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 1996 21:16:23 -0500 | From | Rob Hagopian <> | Subject | Re: time stamp resolution |
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>> Then there are UID numbers. The Hurd, BSD, and NT all have large >> UID support. Some large corperations and universities actually >> use more than 16-bits worth of UIDs, so compatibility would be good. > >At some point we need to have a flag day, and its probably best we have >a single libc6, 32bit uid/gid, higher timer resolution, >256 fd flag day >somewhere before 2.2
32-bit device numbers! I _need_ this! (if there's anything I can do to further this along, I'm more than willing)
kdev_t.h: /* Since MINOR(dev) is used as index in static arrays, the kernel is not quite ready yet for larger minors. However, everything runs fine with an arbitrary kdev_t type. */
-Rob Hagopian
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