Subject: Problem creating device files
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:47:34 +0200
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From: "Nicolas Boudin" <N.Boudin@neopost.com>
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Hello,

I get strange results when trying to create device files with this program:

#include <sys/stat.h>

int main (void)
{
	int major, minor;
	dev_t dev;

	major = 5;
	minor = 1;
	dev = (major << 8) | minor;

	mknod ("test", S_IFCHR | 0666, dev);

	return 0;
}

After running it, I get:

# ls -al test
crw-rw-rw-    1 NBoudin mkgroup-l-d 0, 1281 Jun 21 10:44 test

However, with "mknod test2 c 5 1":
crw-rw-rw-    1 NBoudin mkgroup-l-d 5,    1 Jun 21 10:44 test2

Why do I get this result?

Bye,

Nicolas

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