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From: bengsig@dk.oracle.com (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: major/minor device?
Message-ID: <1346@dkunix9.dk.oracle.com>
Date: 2 Apr 91 11:48:30 GMT
References: <27ee5738.4ab0@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Reply-To: bengsig@dk.oracle.com (Bjorn Engsig)
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Article <27ee5738.4ab0@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> by cknight@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (King Claudius) says:
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|[using PS/2 and 370 arch]
|I'm trying to figure out how to find a filesystem's major/minor # for use in
|the quota library call.
Others have said that you don't really need the major/minor numbers.  But for
the next case:

  The st_rdev field of the stat structure returned by any call from the stat
  family has major and minor numbers packed as to shorts into a long.
-- 
Bjorn Engsig, ORACLE Corporation, E-mail: bengsig@oracle.com, bengsig@oracle.nl