"Garrett D'Amore" <[email protected]> wrote: > And yes, your case is rather an oddball -- the results would differ in a > 32-bit environment vs. a 64-bit one. I'm not too thrilled about *that* > either. I actually think rsync probably has very little business trying > to copy over special nodes. (In retrospect, I wonder if mknod(2) should > be deprecated. With devfs, nobody should be creating special files > anymore....)
mknod() is part of the POSIX standard, you cannot easily deprecate it. Using mknod() with something different from S_IFIFO is non-portable. Note that as long as the NFS filesystem includes support for special nodes, you need to be able to create special nodes on a NFS server. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
