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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> it will be a random unique number
> that will be valid for that boot but may be completely different after the
> next boot.

Heh.

Solaris does this.  THe "random" value can be dereferenced
out of /dev/kmem to read the device structure (it's the
pointer to the device structure in the KVA).

8-).

-- Terry

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