Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] replacing "/dev/root" in /proc/mounts | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 08 Oct 1999 16:53:51 +0200 |
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Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> writes:
|> I was guessing how Wakko might have written a stat based app, and then I |> go on to say this violates the interface by peeking under the kernel's |> skirt. I had already checked, and the MAJOR and MINOR macros in kdev_t.h |> are wrapped up an inside #ifdef __KERNEL__, and so are not available to |> user space. User space simply has no way of knowing what a dev_t might |> be.
I don't talk about MAJOR and MINOR, but major and minor (and makedev). These are available for user space and the correct way to convert dev_t values.
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