Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:55:32 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id:	<199801280255.VAA24626@delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC:	randym AT acm DOT org, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980127144751.843D-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:48:05 +0200 (IST))
Subject:	Re: invent inode docs

> On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Randy Maas wrote:
> 
> > Since I "needed" stat for a fsext and patched stat.c I found a very useful,
> > but not quite documented (as far as I know) function that can help fill out
> > a stat structure: _invent_inode.

Um, why can't we have an fsext function to allocate new *major* device
numbers (starting after drive #32) ?  Then the fsext can invent minor
device numbers by its own scheme.  This is better than trying to fake
a file path with MS-DOS.

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