From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mknod64(1)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 17:45:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jed6ji5w4m.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050701464.745.52.camel@localhost> (Robert Love's message of "18 Apr 2003 17:31:04 -0400")
Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> writes:
|> On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 17:24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
|>
|> > 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.
The wrapper is essentially calling strtol in the end, so yes, coreutils'
mknod does support the standard bases.
Andreas.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-18 21:13 mknod64(1) Robert Love
2003-04-18 21:24 ` mknod64(1) H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-18 21:31 ` mknod64(1) Robert Love
2003-04-19 15:45 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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