Re: how to map "/dev/root" to "/proc/partitions" entry in user prog?

[Martin Schewe]

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Hi,

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:12:18PM -0500, Jeff Meininger wrote:
> How can I reliably map /dev/root to the corresponding entry in=20
> /proc/partitions?  Is there some /proc thing I'm missing, or is there an=
=20
> ioctl that can give me the information I'm looking for?

If you use devfs, you can check /dev/root, which is a symlink to your
root device:

	readlink("/dev/root", rootdev, PATH_MAX);

Otherwise you should take a look at busybox/libbb/find_root_device.c.

Regards,
		Martin

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