Re: checking mount status from kernelspace

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael F. Brown writes:
> From kernelspace I'm trying to determine if a devfs filesystem is mounted
> in /dev.
> 
> Userspace just checks for the existence of /dev/.devfsd, and while I could
> hijack sys_call_table[SYS_stat], I thought there must be a cleaner method.
> 
> (i.e. call some devfs_ function and check for some definitive return status)
> 
> Any ideas?

There isn't anything currently in devfs to support this. And I'd
prefer to avoid it: I want to remove code, not add it :-)

What is you are trying to do, anyway?

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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