On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:08:27PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote: > > > Actually there is also: > > > - ioctl DIOCGDISKINFO. This is supposed to work for all kinds of > > > disks but it returns a plist, and it is a pain to use. > > >Didn't we get something in libutil for calling it? Or am I thinking of > >some in-kernel interface? > > The kernel has a helper function.
That must be what I'm thinking of. > It would be simple to create such a function in libutil (currently > there is code shared in partutil.c from fsck). It might be a good idea to do this for our own use, but probably it shouldn't be a 3rd-party interface. (Unless we decide like the look of it, I guess.) Although I'm not real thrilled about multiplying uses of proplib... -- David A. Holland [email protected]
