Re: Larger dev_t

Wayne.Brown
2001-04-03T14:51:21Z

Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

>Yes: Let "mknod /dev/foo [bc] x y" die!

I hope this never happens. Improving the major/minor device scheme is
reasonable; abandoning it would be a sad occurrence. It would make Linux too
"un-UNIXish" (how's THAT for an an ugly neologism!) for my tastes.

Wayne