Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:37:18 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Julian Assange <proff@iq.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: detecting devfs from userland? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971126163346.3379F-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19971126232220.5569.qmail@iq.org>
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at the moment, there is a line in the output of mount that looks like: devfs on dummy_mount (local) even if you haven't mounted it, as there is always the kernel's internal mountpoint which you can't get to, but which is not optional. also there is a line in the dmesg saying: DEVFS: ready to run. (or similar) 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. > > Cheers, > Julian. >
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