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Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 17:12:04 +0100
From: Justin Cormack <justin@...cialbusservice.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: High-priority library replacements?
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote:
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 03:42:23PM -0700, Brad Conroy wrote:
>> In case I don't get around to fully researching it, the kernel spews
>> out major and minor numbers in /sys that are greater than 255, so
>> the makedev in /sys/sysmacros.h is insufficient (also major() and
>> minor()???) I noticed because I wrote a shell script that populates
>> /dev from /sys in <0.2 seconds but failed for large major/minor
>> numbers when I built busybox with musl. At first glance, it looks
>> like dev_t needs to be uint and have the extra bits from major and
>> minor prepended as in the kernel's dev_t?
>
> Should be fixed in git. Let me know if it doesn't work right.
mknod/mknodat still does return syscall(SYS_mknod, path, mode, dev &
0xffff); - I believe it should pass the full 32 bits.
Also the top 32 bits are only for compatibility with glibc I think,
not sure the macros should touch or use them, as the kernel has 32 bit
dev_t and no plans to change.
Justin
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