From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: On re-working the major/minor system
Date: 11 Dec 2001 22:45:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8EfdooOHw-B@khms.westfalen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9v0mo1$ms$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <9v0mo1$ms$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 09.12.01 in <9v0mo1$ms$1@cesium.transmeta.com>:
> By author: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
> > > The C library, and the POSIX standard, etc, etc.
> >
> > I think you'll find that there is *NOTHING* in either the C standard,
> > POSIX, or the Austin future-{POSIX,UNIX} standard that knows about major
> > or minor numbers.
> >
>
> It's not "future" anymore... Austin is now IEEE 1003.1-2001 and thus
> the new POSIX standard.
As of this Friday, yes.
> Anyway, look for things like tar, cpio, ISO 9660 and that class of
> standards.
Well, at least in Austin there is neither tar, cpio, nor 9660.
You are, however, right insofar as there's pax, which for ustar format has
devmajor and devminor fields of 8 octets each, which contain unspecified
information. (cpio format just has the rdev field.)
MfG Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-11 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-03 18:12 Linux/Pro -- clusters Donald Becker
2001-12-04 1:55 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-04 2:09 ` Donald Becker
2001-12-04 2:23 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-12-04 2:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-04 9:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-04 9:30 ` Thomas Langås
2001-12-04 9:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-04 11:34 ` Thomas Langås
2001-12-05 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-05 23:05 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-12-06 4:31 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-05 23:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-05 23:48 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-12-06 16:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-06 18:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-06 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-06 18:12 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-06 20:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-06 22:40 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-06 18:33 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-06 18:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-06 19:19 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-06 20:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-06 22:35 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-06 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-06 22:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-07 10:14 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-07 10:37 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 10:56 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-07 12:08 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-07 20:51 ` On re-working the major/minor system Erik Andersen
2001-12-07 21:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-07 21:55 ` Erik Andersen
2001-12-07 22:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-07 23:07 ` Erik Andersen
2001-12-07 23:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-08 11:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-08 20:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-09 12:06 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-12-09 21:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-11 20:45 ` Kai Henningsen [this message]
2001-12-06 18:38 ` Linux/Pro -- clusters Doug Ledford
2001-12-04 14:37 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-04 15:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-04 17:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-04 17:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-04 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-04 18:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-04 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-05 13:11 ` Deep look into VFS Martin Dalecki
2001-12-05 15:19 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-05 15:30 ` Martin Dalecki
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-08 17:55 On re-working the major/minor system Andries.Brouwer
2001-12-09 21:37 Andries.Brouwer
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