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To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mknod64(1)
X-Yow: Now I understand the meaning of ``THE MOD SQUAD''!
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 17:45:29 +0200
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Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> writes:

|> On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 17:24, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
|> 
|> > What would probably be useful for mknod(1), if it doesn't already, is
|> > to allow the major/minor to be specified in any of the standard bases,
|> > i.e. using strtoul(...,...,0).
|> 
|> mknod(1) does not, I think.  Actually, maybe it does... it uses some
|> coreutils wrapper.

The wrapper is essentially calling strtol in the end, so yes, coreutils'
mknod does support the standard bases.

Andreas.

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