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From: Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc>
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:36:09PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc> writes:
> > There are a few cases that we might be forced to maintain regular
> > numbers: mkfifo() creates a named pipe, and bind() creates a named
> > socket.
> Neither fifos nor sockets are devices.

Well, then, as long as things like this don't break... :-)

Other than backing up /dev, does anybody have *real* cases where a
program assumes major:minor is consistent across reboots? We should
start notifying the authors now... NFS seems to be one, given the
explanation offered for how fsid's are derived...

mark

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