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Re: DEVFS, howto test creation of devices in /dev?



"Jameson C. Burt" <jameson@coost.com> writes:
> For "Device File System", Debian "devfsd" package,
> how might I test that "devfsd" properly creates files in /dev?

Does your kernel actually have devfs support?  I believe the standard
Debian kernel's don't, or at least don't have it enabled by default.
Probably the easiest way to check is to cat /proc/mounts, and look for
a line like 'none /dev devfs rw 0 0'.  If you don't have devfs
support, devfsd is pretty useless.

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