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    SubjectRe: possible SCSI device numbering solution
    On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Harald Koenig wrote:

    > > No not nice well they won't both happen, so ...
    > >
    > > ... does that look so bad ?
    >
    > of course only one of these dev_t partitionings will show up,
    > but I think all those huge numbers are completely unreadable (in decimal).
    >

    Well it's unlikly that you'll see anything over 512 in production ....

    > but there are programs out there which read and parse the output
    > of "ls -l" or maybe "find /dev -ls" so just changing from decimal to
    > hex might break some programs...
    >

    Well changing the padding is the only way to avoid braking scripts that
    parse ls -l /dev, then again the are more than a few programs that won't
    like the size of dev_t changing.

    >
    > Harald
    > --
    Bryn
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