Now, back to the filesystem... In order to associate devices to their files, the Linux kernel uses their major and minor numbers. However, mine doesn't; instead, I've attributed myself a single group of values (major=0, minor=0, for both character-mode and block-mode special files), with the meaning (for the userspace) "you cannot identify the content of this file based on its major and minor numbers".
As for my kernel, there is a syscall to associate such files with their proper peripherals (asper(2)), after which it internally identifies them using their inode and partition numbers; as for userspace, it has no choice but to use their names, as usual. Do you have any objection to my taking of these values? Emmanuel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
