From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Mar 9 23:20:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (rwcrmhc54.attbi.com [216.148.227.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BECE337B419 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:20:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020310072016.PBYR1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 07:20:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA56946; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:04:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 23:04:07 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing the size of dev_t and ino_t In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG it will be a random unique number that will be valid for that boot but may be completely different after the next boot. On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 2:42 PM -0800 3/9/02, Julian Elischer wrote: > >dev_t will not exist in 6.0 > > Why would it not exist (the user-land type, for fields returned > by the stat() call) in 6.0? I'm thinking of a change at the > userland level, not the kernel level. > > -- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message