Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Spam-Filter: check_local AT alphatech DOT com 4.4(020923:1754) http://digitalanswers.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: mount points Reply-To: sds AT gnu DOT org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. From: Sam Steingold Organization: disorganization References: <20031204094137 DOT GT1640 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20031204143754 DOT GV1640 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:21:28 -0500 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O2yagK8yFfJKS60UcZx0swiDQ+k= In-Reply-To: <20031204143754.GV1640@cygbert.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:37:54 +0100") MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Posted-To: gmane.os.cygwin The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.os.cygwin as well. > * Corinna Vinschen [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). -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k Booze is the answer. I can't remember the question. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/