cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall installUpgrade.c

[Ceri Davies]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:42:21PM +1200, Andrew Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:40:02AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:57:31AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > > In message <200706061141.04765.doconnor at gsoft.com.au>, "Daniel O'Connor" writes
> > > :
> > > 
> > > >On Wednesday 06 June 2007 07:44, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > > >> : '$1~/\\dev\\/(aacd|ad|afd|amrd|ar|da|idad|ipsd|mfid|mlxd|twed)/ &&
> > > >> : \ $2~/\\/$/ {print substr($1, 1, index($1, \"s\") - 1)}'
> > > >> : /etc/fstab`");
> > > >> :
> > > >> : where the regex is built from every device name in device_names
> > > >> : (which even then doesn't cater for GEOM where devices might be
> > > >> : called anything).  This is something that would require a build
> > > >> : tool, which is why I haven't done it yet.
> > > >>
> > > >> "mmcsd" is also a disk.
> > > >
> > > >Why not iterate over the output of sysctl -n kern.disks?
> > > 
> > > Wrong answer.
> > > 
> > > Right answer:  Why not read it from sysctl kern.geom.confxml
> > 
> > That sounds like the right thing to do, but that sysctl returns nothing
> > on my RELENG_6 system; why would that be?
> 
> Its a binary variable
> 
> sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml

Excellent, thank you.

Ceri
-- 
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                                                  -- Moliere
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