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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:44:49 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mount points
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:42:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>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).

SHTDI

I like it.

cgf

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