Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030326AbWCTVO1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:14:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030565AbWCTVO1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:14:27 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:11195 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030326AbWCTVO0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:14:26 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Who uses the 'nodev' flag in /proc/filesystems ??? References: <17436.60328.242450.249552@cse.unsw.edu.au> X-Yow: I just got my PRINCE bumper sticker.. But now I can't remember WHO he is... Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:14:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: <17436.60328.242450.249552@cse.unsw.edu.au> (Neil Brown's message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:27:04 +1100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 791 Lines: 23 Neil Brown writes: > Hence the question in the subject: > > Who uses the 'nodev' flag in /proc/filesystems? > > Are there any known users of this flag? mount is using it, when no explicit type is specified. When iterating over /proc/filesystems it ignores lines with the nodev flag. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/