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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:51:01 +0100
From:      phk@phk.freebsd.dk
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (almost) Ready to ditch device major numbers. 
Message-ID:  <4336.1046335861@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:12:29 PST." <20030227071229.GB2442@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> 

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For now the focus is to make sure we don't run out of major numbers,
and for that I don't see why we should not recognize some devices as
sufficiently magic that we will not touch their majors.  /dev/null,
and /dev/zero are at the top of my list.

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