Re: [patch] replacing "/dev/root" in /proc/mounts

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
08 Oct 1999 09:44:05 +0200


Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> writes:

|> #include <stdio.h>
|> #include <sys/stat.h>
|> #include <unistd.h>
|> int main(int argc, char **argv)
|> {
|> struct stat statBuf;
|> unsigned int major, minor;
|> stat("/", &statBuf);
|> major=minor=statBuf.st_dev;
|> printf("/ is on device major %d, minor %d\n",
|> major>>8, minor&0xff);

This is bad, you should be using the major and minor macros.

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