>Any 'devfs' cannot violate the Unix policy or you don't have Unix.
>This whole discussion is moot. What is needed is a larger dev_t.
>It could be a structure (as proposed) or it could be a N-bit word.
>It doesn't matter, these are implementation details. Because of
>the way dev_t, both in the kernel, and in the C runtime library, is
>accessed, any change will break practially everything. So changes
>must be carefully thought out.
Ah jeez.. Not you too... I know you to smarter than this.
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-Shawn
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