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Id: 6581
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Sys-Mknod

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Requestors: olivier.thauvin [...] aerov.jussieu.fr
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Subject: Create device file with wrong major/minor value
DB<3> mknod("/tmp/dev", c, 0, 0); [olivier@andromede olivier]$ ls /tmp/dev -l crw-r--r-- 1 root root 970, 262424 jun 10 14:40 /tmp/dev perl -v This is perl, v5.8.4 built for i386-linux-thread-multi (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:53:29 +1200
From: Sam Vilain <sam [...] vilain.net>
To: bug-Sys-Mknod [...] rt.cpan.org
Subject: Re: [cpan #6581] Create device file with wrong major/minor value
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Yup, this is because h2ph has problems converting the macros in sys/sysmacros.h to Perl. This module is at the mercy of this conversion, and the test suite should have failed for you if the sysmacros.ph was not successfully generated. -- Sam Vilain, sam /\T vilain |><>T net, PGP key ID: 0x05B52F13 (include my PGP key ID in personal replies to avoid spam filtering)