On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 22:59:03 +0000 sin <s...@2f30.org> wrote: > I am inclined to just keep these tools in sbase. Apparently Haiku > does not really use major/minor numbers for the devices (they are set > to 0). > > > Other point is to think what is the number of system where makedev > > is not supported, because maybe the list is really small. > > Not sure, but I'd expect most if not all the BSD/sysv systems to have > makedev(3). If anyone knows of any systems not having makedev(3) let > me know.
No idea if it is desirable to support, but Plan9/APE is missing makedev and "major" and "minor". It might be a fringe use, but I find myself using individual utilities from either sbase or Heirloom to get configure scripts expecting something not provided by APE or Plan9 to run under APE. (id, xargs, cut, ... and in one case an alternative "sort" because the Plan9 one behaved in a way that the script could not get)
