Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 12:21:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: how's vinum these days with DEVFS (second part) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103111219440.29879-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20010311121337.J18351@fw.wintelcom.net>
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> Since you guys are in docco mode, you might as well document how one
> detects a devfs system in a running system. There's an example
> in the vinum(8) source:
>
> if (sysctlbyname("vfs.devfs.generation", NULL, NULL, NULL, 0) == 0)
> devfs_is_active = 1;
> else
> devfs_is_active = 0;
Why should you care? You should be calling make_dev/make_dev_alias/destroy_dev
whether DEVFS is running or not. Why on earth would you want things to be
different? Is it because you see DEVFS as not offering something you can get
w/o it or what????
-matt
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