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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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