- stat-device-number sprocedure
Device number of the block- or character- special file represented by stat vector S. The device number can be deconstructed with device-major and device-minor. For all other file types, the device number is 0.
Warning: Due to a limitation in Chicken, only 30 bits of the device number are recorded in the stat vector on 32-bit systems (this is raised to 32 bits on 64-bit systems; technically speaking, its foreign type is unsigned-int). Although 32-bit device numbers are most common, some platforms such as Linux may use 64-bit numbers. Therefore, the device number may be somewhat unreliable.
Not valid on Windows, where it returns an unspecified value.