Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:17038 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60548 invoked by uid 1010); 30 Jun 2005 10:00:46 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 60532 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2005 10:00:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pb1.pair.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 30 Jun 2005 10:00:46 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.94.239.5 jdi.jdi-ict.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([82.94.239.5:59093] helo=jdi.jdi-ict.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 1.2 r(5656M)) with SMTP id 8A/7D-42553-CC2C3C24 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:00:45 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5UA0aCN020988 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:00:36 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdi-ict.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5UA0UoG020970; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:00:31 +0200 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 12:00:30 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Kamesh Jayachandran cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <1120125518.23765.237479110@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: References: <1120123282.21270.237477318@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1120125518.23765.237479110@webmail.messagingengine.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jci-ict.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH]check for makedev in ext/posix(5.1 tree) (Build failure in NetWare) From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Kamesh Jayachandran wrote: > Hi Derick, > Our LibC implementation of mknod as of today allows creation of regular > file, regular dir and fifo only. > It does not support Character and Block device creation. > The documentation of NetWare LibC mandates dev argument to mknod to be > 0.(Which currently the case with php_dev=0). > May be when makdev is implemented this code will automatically take care > of the new functionality without any change in the code with just the > change in new set of LibC headers. Ok, I'll add a warning then if a Char or Block device is requested, but makedev is not available. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org