Re: [PATCH] mknod64 with major,minor

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 13:49:22 EST

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By author: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
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>
> A second version of mknod64 for i386.
> There are no assumptions on the size of dev_t.
>
> sys_mknod takes unsigned int (instead of dev_t)
> sys_mknod64 takes two unsigned ints.
>

Why unsigned int? If we have a legacy call it should presumably use
the legacy __u16 format.

-hpa

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