Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-23,: Re: Migrating to larger numbers

# Re: Migrating to larger numbers

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
07 Jun 1999 14:40:52 -0700

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hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin) writes:

> Guess what? We *ALREADY* depend on these -- dev_t in libc6 is a
> 64-bit number.

No, you don't depend on it. Just like now the numbers which are
coming up from the kernel are zero-extended. It's just that glibc can
cope with whatever decision the kernel people finally can come up.

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