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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: detecting devfs from userland?
To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 1997 08:38:26 +1100 (EDT)
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Getting back to the topic of detecting DEVFS from userland, if the kernel
config file (i.e. GENERIC) was included when compiled - or at least the
lines which aren't commented out - and this was available from kernfs as
/kern/config, you could do "grep DEVFS /kern/config".  Granted this won't
tell you if it is or isn't mounted, but is it a start ?

Darren