On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

: There's a potentially nasty `stupid user' issue lurking here.  If you
: simply follow Chris's proposal and do a straight 12/20 split, using
: major number 0 to flag old-style nodes, then an old MAKEDEV(8) with a
: new mknod(8) or a new MAKEDEV(8) with an old mknod(8) will create
: bogus device numbers.  This is going to bite people -- maybe even
: inadvertantly opening security holes.

Well, during development (I'd think switching dev_t's would warrant a letter
bump from `B' to `C' perhaps?  :) we can expect things to bite.  However, it
should be adequate to require those tracking -current to update /dev/MAKEDEV
and mknod(8) at the same time--for those going release to release, that will
happen automatically as both are in the base binary set.

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