Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:02:45 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: sysfs root link count broken in 2.6.22-git5 |
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On Jul 19 2007 10:41, Jean Delvare wrote: >> Well, just check if /sys/devices/ exists, that should be cheap enough. :) > >Yes, this is a possibility, and one I had considered at first. But I >wasn't sure which subdirectory to check. sysfs isn't well known for its >stability, and I didn't know which directories exist since the >early days of sysfs, and which do not. For example, fs, kernel and >module were not present in 2.6.5. I am also not sure if directories >which exist today are guaranteed to exist forever. This is the reason >why I decided to check the link count instead, basically checking that >at least one subdirectory exists, without having to name it.
If anything exists, it is likely to be mounted. opendir, 3x readdir, exit the loop, done :)
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