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5 * Copyright (C) tons of folks. Tracking down who wrote what
6 * isn't something I'm going to worry about... If you wrote something
7 * here, please feel free to acknowledge your work.
9 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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14 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
16 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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21 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
23 * Based in part on code from sash, Copyright (c) 1999 by David I. Bell
24 * Permission has been granted to redistribute this code under the GPL.
36 extern char *find_real_root_device_name(const char* name)
40 struct stat statBuf, rootStat;
43 if (stat("/", &rootStat) != 0) {
44 error_msg("could not stat '/'");
48 dir = opendir("/dev");
50 error_msg("could not open '/dev'");
54 while((entry = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
56 /* Must skip ".." since that is "/", and so we
57 * would get a false positive on ".." */
58 if (strcmp(entry->d_name, "..") == 0)
61 fileName = concat_path_file("/dev/", entry->d_name);
63 /* Some char devices have the same dev_t as block
64 * devices, so make sure this is a block device */
65 if (stat(fileName, &statBuf) == 0 &&
66 S_ISBLK(statBuf.st_mode)!=0 &&
67 statBuf.st_rdev == rootStat.st_rdev) {