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Re: [PATCH 05/24] Introduce locking functions for block device setup on NetBSD



Manuel Bouyer writes ("Re: [PATCH 05/24] Introduce locking functions for block 
device setup on NetBSD"):
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 04:12:29PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I think NetBSD's stat(1) also takes different argumnts to specify the
> > format.  NetBSD uses -f, whereas Linux uses -c.  So the exact rune
> > will have to be different.
> 
> Yes, and NetBSD doens't have %D (only %d)

What's really important here is the inode number.  But %d will do
nicely.  I only used %D on Linux since device numbers are two-element
bitfields so displaying them in hex makes more sense to humans who
might be debugging this.

Ian.



 


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