Re: Kernel 2.4: devfs: bugs
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:54:14AM -0500, Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org> was heard to say:
> But some things need to "just know" where to find the dev with the
> right major/minor. Think getty.
>
> Does anyone have a reliable test for whether devfs is running? Does
> it put a marker in /dev, maybe?
I believe that devfsd checks for the existence of /dev/.devfsd.
Daniel
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