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[Ben Escoto]

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>>>>> "JH" == Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net>
>>>>> wrote the following on Sat, 16 Feb 2002 19:31:45 -0800

  >>> s = os.lstat('/dev/null') s.st_rdev >> 8
  > 1
  >>> s.st_rdev & 0xff
  > 3

This is great!  Apparently this is new as of v2.2 and I never noticed
it was added.  So, no more stat(1), but I guess I'm still stuck with
mknod for the moment (but mknod usage seems more standard).


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