On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 09:27, David Holm wrote: > It might be more appropriate to check /proc/mounts for ' devfs ' (the > spaces are needed or otherwise you might detect usbdevfs) as devfsd is > not required to be running for devfs to work. Wrong (at least for recent 2.4 kernels). Devfs automatically creates /dev/.devfsd on mount: