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Subject: Re: mknod64(1)
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 17:24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Well, actually, once glibc is updated to call SYS_mknod64 and have the
> right MAJOR() and MINOR() macros, it shouldn't require any changes to
> mknod(1).

Agreed.  Assuming mknod(1) is dev_t-clean, this is obsolete as soon as
glibc is updated for 64-bit dev_t.  Until then, this is available and
easy and works.

> What would probably be useful for mknod(1), if it doesn't already, is
> to allow the major/minor to be specified in any of the standard bases,
> i.e. using strtoul(...,...,0).

mknod(1) does not, I think.  Actually, maybe it does... it uses some
coreutils wrapper.

But my mknod64(1) certainly does :)

Hex, decimal, and binary should all work.

	Robert Love