Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Theo de Raadt schreef op 2020-01-22 23:20: > > this is not actually surprising. there are only about 3 majors > > which can't > > move around without problem. It is a MD detail, which is why tables > > have > > to know about it > > > > ok > > I sometimes wish we'd split the majors into MI and MD "ranges", but > that'd need a giant flag day and I can't motivate myself to do the > work for that.
such a flag day would require "cleaning out old /dev nodes", which have unsafe owner/permissions I think it is impossible! However I also share the attraction to the idea, it would be similar to our unified syscall numbers. (Don't mention the seccomp!)
