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The following reply was made to PR lib/39215; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: christos@xxxxxxxxxx (Christos Zoulas)
Cc: gnats-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx, lib-bug-people@xxxxxxxxxx,
gnats-admin@xxxxxxxxxx, netbsd-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx,
dholland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: lib/39215: getdevmajor()/major() types don't match
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:34:28 +0200
christos@xxxxxxxxxx said:
> libc interfaces should use typed return values as opposed to plain
> integral types
OK. But major and minor numbers live in another number space
than dev_t. Solaris and OSF/1 have major_t and minor_t typedefs,
we could do the same.
best regards
Matthias
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