Scott Long wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 12:17:19PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >> >>> I was thinking of doing something like that. You can basically >>> get the same info by doing something like: >>> file - < /dev/ad0s1e >>> /dev/stdin: Unix Fast File system (little-endian) >>> file - < /dev/ad0s4 >>> /dev/stdin: SGI XFS filesystem >>> >>> I leaned away from this approach in mount(8) because: >>> - I didn't want to tie mount(8) to file(1) >> >> >> Why not? We have libmagic for purposes like this. >> > > This is an interesting idea. However, it has the potential to > add a dependency on /usr to the early boot environment. Maybe it > could be done via rtld? Well, we have dynamic /sbin now, so that it's only the matter of moving libmagic into /lib. -MaximReceived on Mon Jul 10 2006 - 23:05:47 UTC
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