> On Jul 20, 2023, at 11:01 AM, Mouse <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
>
>>>> Don't cloner instances differ in minor number? [...]
>>> Not that I?m aware of. [...]
>> Well, as noted in this thread, traditionally you can tell when two
>> files are the same by examining stat results.
>
> Maybe that should be a hint. See below.
>
>> And the cloner mechanism replaced an older scheme where you had to
>> pick the number of instances you wanted, and unless I'm
>> misremembering badly in that world each had to have its own minor
>> number.
>
> That's my understanding as well.
>
>> That said, it almost certainly isn't important...
>
> Well, if it means that with a minor tweak NetBSD could have kcmp(3)
> instead of kcmp(2), it could be.
If you read the Linux kcmp(2) manual page, you’ll see that it’s a lot more than
just file descriptors.
-- thorpej
