Re: [PATCH] new system call mknod64

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> Let's go for 32:32 internal and simply map upon mknod(2) and friends.

stat() too.

> On the syscall boundary.  End of problem.

I agree - that would make it always be obvious where the mapping happens, 
_and_ it cleanly avoids the alias issue internally, so that we don't have 
to play games in device drivers that want big ranges.

		Linus