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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] dev to devices swapover ver 0.1
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:42:39 +0200

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:00:04AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> >
> > An easy check whether devfsd is used or not is to check for the file
> > /dev/.devfsd, it is created by devfs when its mounted.
> >
> Im confused you are using devfsd and devfs seemingly interchangably ;)
> does the file /dev/.devfsd exist if the kernel has automounted devfs
> (ignore the program /sbin/devfsd)

Yeah, i was a bit tired when i wrote that sentence :)
The file /dev/.devfsd exists when devfs is mounted on /dev, devfsd
itself checks for that file to see if devfs is mounted.


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