From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 26 16:29:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA03614 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:29:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from thought.calbbs.com (thought.calbbs.com [207.71.213.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA03607 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:29:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@smarter.than.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thought.calbbs.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA06023; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:26:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:26:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@thought.calbbs.com To: Julian Assange cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: detecting devfs from userland? In-Reply-To: <19971126232220.5569.qmail@iq.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 26 Nov 1997, Julian Assange wrote: > > Is there anyway to detect if the running kernel was built with > -DDEVFS, other than trying to mount -t devfs ? (i.e a way that > doesn't require root privs? sysctl -a is of no use here. dmesg|grep DEVFS -- Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu No security through obscurity! Demand full source code! 4.4BSD for the masses - http://www.freebsd.org