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.
