Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64

Linus Torvalds
2003-04-21T18:55:16Z

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
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> Let's go for 32:32 internal and simply map upon mknod(2) and friends.

stat() too.

> On the syscall boundary. End of problem.

I agree - that would make it always be obvious where the mapping happens,
_and_ it cleanly avoids the alias issue internally, so that we don't have
to play games in device drivers that want big ranges.

Linus