Re: Wrong define for dev_t

Felix von Leitner <[email protected]> Fri, 21 May 2010 03:01:36 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.lib.dietlibc
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> I had a bug here where sda16 was created as 3:0 instead of 259:0

> I found that this is because on x86 dev_t is wrong, it is uint16_t
> instead of uint32_t

The dev_t declaration comes from the kernel and is correct.

Also, on my system:

  # mknod foo b 2 259; ls -l foo
  brw-r--r--    1 root     root       2, 259 May 21 03:00 foo
  # file =mknod =ls
  /opt/diet/bin/mknod: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
  /opt/diet/bin/ls:    ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
  #

Felix