On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Chris Jones wrote:

: >    crw-r-----  1 root  kmem  2, 0 Jul 16 13:23 /dev/mem
: >    -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem  45056 Jul 17 16:16 /usr/bin/systat

: > crw-r-----  1 root  kmem   3, 1 Jun 26 09:56 /dev/kmem
: > crw-r-----  1 root  kmem   3, 0 Jun 26 09:56 /dev/mem
: > -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem  57344 Jul 19 20:43 /usr/bin/systat

: Why are there two major numbers to choose from?

Because not all architectures have th `mm' (mem, kmem, ...) device in the
same place.

SPARC has /dev/mem at 3:0; arm32 at 0:0....

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