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knowing a device special file major and minor numbers in linux

Hi! All files in /dev are special files... they represent devices of the computer. They were created with the mknod syscall. My question is: How can I know the minor and major numbers that were used to create this special file? thanks! Manuel ...

emacs lisp, how to get buffer major mode?

hey guys I have tried to search Google and look in the manual, but still cannot find how to get major mode of a buffer object. Can you help me with an example or a reference. Thanks only solution I could find was to query major-mode after changing the buffer and then changing back to original buffer. Is there a better way to do it? ...

GIT: is a tag unique per commit?

If you can use a tag only once (unique by commit), what do I do with 7 commits in tag "Version 7.3"? I hate that GIT doesn't make revision numbers (like SVN :)). I guess a subquestion would be: What would be a best practice to 'control' version numbers (ex revisions, so I want to save major.minor in every commit and DEFINITELY in every ...