Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:32:33 +0200 (MEST) | Subject | Re: 64-bit kdev_t - just for playing |
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> Why do we need a split at all?
Inside the kernel? No need at all. But the Unix API is in terms of major,minor.
The NFS specification talks about major,minor. The ISO 9660 (RockRidge) standard talks about major,minor. Etc.
Inside the kernel we can do whatever we want, and no split is required. In userspace such a split definitely exists.
See also mknod(1) and ls(1).
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