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SubjectRe: [PATCH] new system call mknod64
    From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>

On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 08:39:32PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Change the type of the mknod arg from dev_t to unsigned int.
> Add (for i386) mknod64.

Please make the argument for mknod/mknod64 __u32/__u64. And I
don't think adding the syscall makes sense before the internal
dev_t representation has changed.

Yes, there is a dozen rather uninteresting patches that can
be applied any moment. But a new system call is more important,
so I show it in public at some earlier stage, so that Linus and
others, like you, can comment.

Yesterday or the day before Linus preferred __u32 etc for this
loopinfo64 ioctl, so I did it that way. Here, since mknod is a
traditional Unix system call, I am still inclined to prefer
(unsigned) int above __u32. Of course it doesn't matter much.

Andries
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