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5 * Copyright (C) 1999,2000 by Lineo, inc. and Erik Andersen
6 * Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2001 by Erik Andersen <andersee@debian.org>
7 * Patched by a bunch of people. Feel free to acknowledge your work.
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32 extern char *find_real_root_device_name(const char* name)
36 struct stat statBuf, rootStat;
37 char *fileName = NULL;
40 if (stat("/", &rootStat) != 0)
41 perror_msg("could not stat '/'");
43 if ((dev = rootStat.st_rdev)==0)
46 dir = opendir("/dev");
48 perror_msg("could not open '/dev'");
50 while((entry = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
52 /* Must skip ".." since that is "/", and so we
53 * would get a false positive on ".." */
54 if (strcmp(entry->d_name, "..") == 0)
57 fileName = concat_path_file("/dev", entry->d_name);
59 /* Some char devices have the same dev_t as block
60 * devices, so make sure this is a block device */
61 if (stat(fileName, &statBuf) == 0 &&
62 S_ISBLK(statBuf.st_mode)!=0 &&
63 statBuf.st_rdev == dev)
72 fileName=xstrdup("/dev/root");