major/minor device?

[Bjorn Engsig]

Article <27ee5738.4ab0 at petunia.CalPoly.EDU> by cknight at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (King Claudius) says:
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|[using PS/2 and 370 arch]
|I'm trying to figure out how to find a filesystem's major/minor # for use in
|the quota library call.
Others have said that you don't really need the major/minor numbers.  But for
the next case:

  The st_rdev field of the stat structure returned by any call from the stat
  family has major and minor numbers packed as to shorts into a long.
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Bjorn Engsig, ORACLE Corporation, E-mail: bengsig at oracle.com, bengsig at oracle.nl