> Are there any plans to widen dev_t?

Yes, and they've actually been taken into account, etc.

> This might be a good time while
> everything else is changing to support the wider off_t.

Not really -- changing something from a short to an int is no problem,
assuming the compiler behaved 'nicely' to begin with.

However, a lot of things around make the assumption that dev_t ==
short...


chris

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