Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Jun 1996 10:59:54 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: possible SCSI device numbering solution |
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On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Harald Koenig wrote:
> > No not nice well they won't both happen, so ... > > > > ... does that look so bad ? > > of course only one of these dev_t partitionings will show up, > but I think all those huge numbers are completely unreadable (in decimal). >
Well it's unlikly that you'll see anything over 512 in production ....
> but there are programs out there which read and parse the output > of "ls -l" or maybe "find /dev -ls" so just changing from decimal to > hex might break some programs... >
Well changing the padding is the only way to avoid braking scripts that parse ls -l /dev, then again the are more than a few programs that won't like the size of dev_t changing.
> > Harald > -- Bryn -- PGP key pass phrase forgotten, \ Overload -- core meltdown sequence again :( | initiated. / This space is intentionally left | blank, apart from this text ;-) \____________________________________
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