getmntent(3) -- Linux man page

NAME

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h>
#include <mntent.h>

FILE *setmntent(const char *filename, const char *type);

struct mntent *getmntent(FILE *fp);

int addmntent(FILE *fp, const struct mntent *mnt);

int endmntent(FILE *fp);

char *hasmntopt(const struct mntent *mnt, const char *opt);

/* GNU extension */
#define _GNU_SOURCE    /* or _SVID_SOURCE or _BSD_SOURCE */
#include <mntent.h>

struct mntent *getmntent_r(FILE *fp, struct mntent *mntbuf,
                           char *buf, int buflen);

DESCRIPTION

The setmntent() function opens the file system description file fp and returns a file pointer which can be used by getmntent(). The argument type is the type of access required and can take the same values as the mode argument of fopen(3).

The getmntent() function reads the next line from the file system description file fp and returns a pointer to a structure containing the broken out fields from a line in the file. The pointer points to a static area of memory which is overwritten by subsequent calls to getmntent().

The addmntent() function adds the mntent structure mnt to the end of the open file fp.

The endmntent() function closes the file system description file fp.

The hasmntopt() function scans the mnt_opts field (see below) of the mntent structure mnt for a substring that matches opt. See <mntent.h> for valid mount options.

The reentrant getmntent_r() function is similar to getmntent(), but stores the struct mount in the provided *mntbuf and stores the strings pointed to by the entries in that struct in the provided array buf of size buflen.

The mntent structure is defined in <mntent.h> as follows:

struct mntent {
        char    *mnt_fsname;    /* name of mounted file system */
        char    *mnt_dir;       /* file system path prefix */
        char    *mnt_type;      /* mount type (see mntent.h) */
        char    *mnt_opts;      /* mount options (see mntent.h) */
        int     mnt_freq;       /* dump frequency in days */
        int     mnt_passno;     /* pass number on parallel fsck */
};

RETURN VALUE

The addmntent() function returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.

The endmntent() function always returns 1.

The hasmntopt() function returns the address of the substring if a match is found and NULL otherwise.  

FILES

/etc/fstab          file system description file
/etc/mtab           mounted file system description file

CONFORMING TO

NOTES

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