[issue23842] SystemError: ../Objects/longobject.c:998: bad argument to internal function

[Matthias Klose]

Matthias Klose added the comment:

casting to a long works ...

>>> os.major(long(os.makedev(8,65)))
8

so maybe revert that optimization for the released branches?

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