Re: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 08:57:58PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> 
>>Christoph: Have you looked at my question regarding
>>/sys/class/tty/console/dev ?
> 
> 
> No, I'll leave that to Greg.  If you want my 2 (Euro-) Cent I'd rather avoid
> exposing a dev_t to userspace wherever possible.

Understood. Especially since the recent upsizing of dev_t broke
applications trying to be too clever about dev_t. However, look at this:

# cat /sys/class/tty/console/dev
5:1

Does this major:minor textfile export address your concerns?


Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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