On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:00:48PM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> There is a point I'd like to get clear: where should the 16bit<->32bit
> dev_t conversion happen?
> I think any software that cares about this should be safe by now. That
> leaves us with on-disk and on-wire formats and IMO only at these places a
> conversion should happen.
Actually, no. mknod(8), ls(1), and friends still assume struct
stat with u16.
Joel
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