Subject: Re: major number for /dev/zero
To: Theo Deraadt <deraadt@fsa.ca>
From: None <mw@eunet.ch>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/19/1994 11:14:10
> 
> > > #define       DEVZERO makedev(2, 12)          /* major,minor of /dev/zero */
> 
> The major# of 2 is what Markus told me to use for m68k machines.
> Perhaps this is only valid for 4.0.3 machines. Can someone with a
> 4.0.3 machine tell me if that is what it is from, or perhaps Markus
> can clarify?

Hm, confusion alert.. 2,12 is what the hp300 version used, and was thus
what I used in the amiga port, too. It was not based on sun3 numbering.
If changing to 3, *please* don't shift everything else around, I can
perfectly live without wrong device node nightmares...

-Markus
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