: `Yeah, right.'  Past experience shows that any time you expect users
: to do two things at once, some of them are going to forget, not read
: the directions at all, or just plain screw it up.  Why have the
: support hassle when you don't need it?

Okay, I read your clarification on the specinfo field stuff.  What I didn't
see was a couple layers of macro overlaying in the case of the specinfo
field--that the dev_t used by checkalias() et al. _is_ 'v_rdev' thanks to a
macro, and it's used in specfs to call the device functions.

I'm a lot happier now, and I bow before you.  :)

I'll be writing some code tonight!, and this time I _will_ be including some
16-bit support.  We'll see what happens....

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===== Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com) =====
== "There's a myth that there is a scarcity of justice to go around, so
== that if we extend justice to 'those people,' it will somehow erode the
== quality of justice everyone else receives."  -- Maria Price