Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@vali.stanford.edu> writes:

> 
> But regardless of what we do, if the new mknod program gets passed a major
> < 100 and no indication otherwise, it should assume it's being called by
> an OLD script and act accordingly.

So, this is exactly the sort of thing I was referring when I mentioned
`wasting another part of the number space' and `another hack [to do
the renumbering]'.  With my proprosal, no such kluge is required.