Re: 64 bit time_t changes

To: Tom Spindler <dogcow%babymeat.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: 64 bit time_t changes
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:15:16 +0100

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:16:00AM -0700, Tom Spindler wrote:
> It'd be nice to be able to unify all the device numbers, since (IIRC)
> some ports have different major/minor numbers for the same device.

Initially this was for compat with other OSes, but in the end it probably is
not needed a lot. With the upcoming devfs we're mostly free inside NetBSD,
and for compat we could create a dev-mapper-fs like umap maps user/group ids.

Martin

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