Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!phri!roy
From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Bigger process IDs and "dev_t"s (was: Re: RISC v. CISC...)
Message-ID: <3579@phri.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 88 01:51:11 GMT
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Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> It's quite conceivable to re-partition those 16 bits

Sounds like a job for devmask (analagous to netmask for IP subnets).
-- 
Roy Smith, System Administrator
Public Health Research Institute
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