Re: Upcoming: Notifications, FS notifications and fsinfo()

From: David Howells
Date: Tue Mar 31 2020 - 17:56:37 EST


Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> - We also have code that needs to check if /dev/ is plain tmpfs or
> devtmpfs. We cannot use statfs for that, since in both cases
> TMPFS_MAGIC is reported, hence we currently parse
> /proc/self/mountinfo for that to find the fstype string there, which
> is different for both cases.

btw, fsinfo(FSINFO_ATTR_IDS) gets you the name of the filesystem type in
addition to the magic number.

David