sorry for the crosspost but since it originated on -current
maybe people interested in the rest of the discussion were there.
I introduced the sysctl to export some amount of information to be
used by picobsd disks to tell whether you booted from floppy or atapi disk.
In turn, this is useful (and used) if you want to update something
on the boot media for the next boot.
The file system mounted on / has no relation with the boot device, e.g.
in the picobsd case you will have an md disk mounted on root.
So, the proposed replacement is not helpful.
Please do not nuke the sysctl unless you have a replacement that
can work where it is supposed to work.
And if someone wants to propose a replacement, please remember that
"this compiles but i have not tested it" tells absolutely
nothing on how appropriate is the proposed patch.
thanks
luigi
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:13:35PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Simon L. Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > PicoBSD does not necessarily have awk (actually most likely doesn't
> > since awk is 'big'). cut could be used instead since it much smaller :
> >
> > mount | grep 'on / ' | cut -f 1 -d ' '
> >
> > Perhaps somebody has a better way?
>
> Does PicoBSD have sed? If it does:
>
> mount | sed -n 's/^\([^ ]*\) on \/ .*/\1/p'
>
> Doesn't win a beauty contest, but saves one exec.
> (It could be done with ed, too, if there's no sed.)
>
> Regards
> Oliver
>
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