Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Sam Steingold Subject: Re: mount points Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:21:28 -0500 Organization: disorganization Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <20031204094137.GT1640@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20031204143754.GV1640@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O2yagK8yFfJKS60UcZx0swiDQ+k= > * 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/