From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 26 16:11:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA02102 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:11:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA02090 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:10:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA02771; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:10:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19971126161042.30719@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 16:10:42 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Julian Assange Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: detecting devfs from userland? References: <19971126232220.5569.qmail@iq.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <19971126232220.5569.qmail@iq.org>; from Julian Assange on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 11:22:20PM -0000 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian Assange scribbled this message on Nov 26: > > 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. lsvfs.. don't worry, didn't know about it until bruce mentioned it to me.. :) -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD