From: umar@janteq.com
To: "David Wagner" <david.wagner@free-electrons.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Discovering current MTD partition
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:14:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d7bb9e8d1c11cece8092e2f4c40436e2.squirrel@emailmg.startlogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB7C9F9.9000609@free-electrons.com>
> On 04/27/2011 09:25 AM, umar@janteq.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>> [...]
>> What I'd like is to detect from userspace is which /dev/mtdX partition
>> is
>> the currently executing program running on because that is the partition
>> that has been obviously booted.
>
> I think you might want to take a look at getmntent (3) : it is a libc
> function for getting the /etc/mtab entries. It also seems to be portable.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
> --
> David Wagner, Free Electrons
> Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
> development, consulting, training and support.
> http://free-electrons.com
This will give me the same info as /proc/mtab. I cannot figure out how I
can infer which /dev/mtdXX was booted from with this information.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-27 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-26 23:43 Discovering current MTD partition Umar Qureshey
2011-04-27 5:31 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-27 6:22 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-27 17:08 ` umar
2011-04-28 7:31 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-28 7:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-28 8:00 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-28 8:52 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-28 9:09 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-27 7:25 ` umar
[not found] ` <4DB7C9F9.9000609@free-electrons.com>
2011-04-27 17:14 ` umar [this message]
2011-04-28 4:27 ` Iwo Mergler
2011-04-28 7:39 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2011-04-28 17:26 ` umar
2011-04-28 17:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-29 0:53 ` umar
2011-04-28 18:08 ` Bjørn Forsman
2011-04-28 18:21 ` Atlant Schmidt
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