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      1 // Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
      3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 // Functions to access/create device major and minor numbers matching the
      6 // encoding used by the Linux kernel and glibc.
      7 //
      8 // The information below is extracted and adapted from bits/sysmacros.h in the
      9 // glibc sources:
     10 //
     11 // dev_t in glibc is 64-bit, with 32-bit major and minor numbers. glibc's
     12 // default encoding is MMMM Mmmm mmmM MMmm, where M is a hex digit of the major
     13 // number and m is a hex digit of the minor number. This is backward compatible
     14 // with legacy systems where dev_t is 16 bits wide, encoded as MMmm. It is also
     15 // backward compatible with the Linux kernel, which for some architectures uses
     16 // 32-bit dev_t, encoded as mmmM MMmm.
     17 
     18 package unix
     19 
     20 // Major returns the major component of a Linux device number.
     21 func Major(dev uint64) uint32 {
     22 	major := uint32((dev & 0x00000000000fff00) >> 8)
     23 	major |= uint32((dev & 0xfffff00000000000) >> 32)
     24 	return major
     25 }
     26 
     27 // Minor returns the minor component of a Linux device number.
     28 func Minor(dev uint64) uint32 {
     29 	minor := uint32((dev & 0x00000000000000ff) >> 0)
     30 	minor |= uint32((dev & 0x00000ffffff00000) >> 12)
     31 	return minor
     32 }
     33 
     34 // Mkdev returns a Linux device number generated from the given major and minor
     35 // components.
     36 func Mkdev(major, minor uint32) uint64 {
     37 	dev := (uint64(major) & 0x00000fff) << 8
     38 	dev |= (uint64(major) & 0xfffff000) << 32
     39 	dev |= (uint64(minor) & 0x000000ff) << 0
     40 	dev |= (uint64(minor) & 0xffffff00) << 12
     41 	return dev
     42 }
     43