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Subject: Re: mount points
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From: Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
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Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:21:28 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <20031204143754.GV1640@cygbert.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's
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The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.os.cygwin as well.

> * 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).

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