> major/minor is not required for compatibility with other unices.
POSIX does not seem to care much. The Unix standards definitely require them
in things like stat(). Applications also use them a lot.
> If other unices don't abolish major/minor's who cares? They keep using
> them, we don't.
Glibc requires them and without them things like tar -G break
Alan
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