On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:44:56PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 02:32:47PM +0200, Moritz Schulte wrote:
> > So, is this broken code or is stat() doing something wrong? (should
> > st_rdev be 0?) I'll later look more into this...
>
> *groan* The Hurd doesn't give distinct major/minor numbers to devices.
> They all get (0,0). What are the major and minor numbers to a monolithical
> kernel like Linux or BSD, is the translator setting for the Hurd.
I should add that there is in principal no reliable way if you stumb on
blocks used by some other translator. For the moment, I think it is okay to
rely on whatever info is in /etc/fstab.
Marcus
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