|> I was guessing how Wakko might have written a stat based app, and then I
|> go on to say this violates the interface by peeking under the kernel's
|> skirt. I had already checked, and the MAJOR and MINOR macros in kdev_t.h
|> are wrapped up an inside #ifdef __KERNEL__, and so are not available to
|> user space. User space simply has no way of knowing what a dev_t might
|> be.
I don't talk about MAJOR and MINOR, but major and minor (and makedev).
These are available for user space and the correct way to convert dev_t
values.
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