Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 19:27:34 +0100
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 11:22:51AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> One way to avoid the bug is to always keep all dev_t numbers in "canonical
> format". Which happens automatically if the interface is <major, minor>
> rather than a 64-bit blob.
>
> I personally think that anything that uses "dev_t" in _any_ other way than
> <major,minor> is fundamentally broken.
Do you consider internal use of MKDEV-produced constants broken?
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