Re: On re-working the major/minor system

H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-09T21:58:25Z

Followup to: <8EWhHLVmw-B@khms.westfalen.de>
By author: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > 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.

Anyway, look for things like tar, cpio, ISO 9660 and that class of
standards.

-hpa
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