On Aug 17 17:51, Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/17/2010 05:46 PM, Bob Goldberg wrote: > > cygwin 1.7.6 > > > > attempting to: > > $ mknod null c 1 3 > > > > what I get is: > > crw-rw-rw- 1 user mkgroup-l-d 46200, 14467 2010-08-17 18:44 null > > > > WHERE did those crazy major/minor's come from!?!?
They come from Cygwin. They are an accidental reflection of the volume id, which is used in stat::st_rdev for files by default. Cygwin only set st_dev to the device number so far. I fixed that in CVS so that st_rdev and st_dev both contain the device number now for device files. Thanks for the report, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
