Bigger process IDs and "dev_t"s (was: Re: RISC v. CISC...)

[Roy Smith]

henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> It's quite conceivable to re-partition those 16 bits

Sounds like a job for devmask (analagous to netmask for IP subnets).
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