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32.\"     @(#)getmntinfo.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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34.Dd June 9, 1993
35.Dt GETMNTINFO 3
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm getmntinfo
39.Nd get information about mounted file systems
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Fd #include <sys/param.h>
42.Fd #include <sys/ucred.h>
43.Fd #include <sys/mount.h>
44.Ft int
45.Fn getmntinfo "struct statfs **mntbufp" "int flags"
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Fn getmntinfo
49function
50returns an array of
51.Fn statfs
52structures describing each currently mounted file system (see
53.Xr statfs 2 ) .
54.Pp
55The
56.Fn getmntinfo
57function
58passes its
59.Fa flags
60parameter transparently to
61.Xr getfsstat 2 .
62.Sh RETURN VALUES
63On successful completion,
64.Fn getmntinfo
65returns a count of the number of elements in the array.
66The pointer to the array is stored into
67.Fa mntbufp .
68.Pp
69If an error occurs, zero is returned and the external variable
70.Va errno
71is set to indicate the error.
72Although the pointer
73.Fa mntbufp
74will be unmodified, any information previously returned by
75.Fn getmntinfo
76will be lost.
77.Sh ERRORS
78The
79.Fn getmntinfo
80function
81may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library
82routines
83.Xr getfsstat 2
84or
85.Xr malloc 3 .
86.Sh SEE ALSO
87.Xr getfsstat 2 ,
88.Xr mount 2 ,
89.Xr statfs 2 ,
90.Xr mount 8
91.Sh HISTORY
92The
93.Fn getmntinfo
94function first appeared in
95.Bx 4.4 .
96.Sh BUGS
97The
98.Fn getmntinfo
99function writes the array of structures to an internal static object
100and returns
101a pointer to that object. Subsequent calls to
102.Fn getmntinfo
103will modify the same object.
104.Pp
105The memory allocated by
106.Fn getmntinfo
107cannot be
108.Xr free 3 Ns 'd
109by the application.
110