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Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:42:15 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: mount points
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:21:28AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > * Corinna Vinschen <pbevaan-pltjva AT pltjva DOT pbz> [2003-12-04 15:37:54 +0100]:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:27:14AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
> >> PS.  Is there a POSIX way to get the list of mount points, lime mount(1)
> >>      and df(1) do?  It appears that linux has /proc/mounts and most
> >>      unixes have /etc/mtab, but is there a system call?
> >
> > man 3 getmntent
> 
> cool - thanks!
> unfortunately, this is not in POSIX
> (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/)
> so this is not portable (and this just parses the mtab file,
> not asks the kernel for mount points).

As has been mentioned already, nobody is against inclusion of statvfs
functionality in Cygwin, it's just that "somebody has to do it"(tm).

Corinna

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