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28.Dd December 27, 2016
29.Dt GETMNTINFO 3
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm getmntinfo
33.Nd get information about mounted file systems
34.Sh LIBRARY
35.Lb libc
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.In sys/param.h
38.In sys/ucred.h
39.In sys/mount.h
40.Ft int
41.Fn getmntinfo "struct statfs **mntbufp" "int mode"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Fn getmntinfo
45function
46returns an array of
47.Fn statfs
48structures describing each currently mounted file system (see
49.Xr statfs 2 ) .
50.Pp
51The
52.Fn getmntinfo
53function
54passes its
55.Fa mode
56argument transparently to
57.Xr getfsstat 2 .
58.Sh RETURN VALUES
59On successful completion,
60.Fn getmntinfo
61returns a count of the number of elements in the array.
62The pointer to the array is stored into
63.Fa mntbufp .
64.Pp
65If an error occurs, zero is returned and the external variable
66.Va errno
67is set to indicate the error.
68Although the pointer
69.Fa mntbufp
70will be unmodified, any information previously returned by
71.Fn getmntinfo
72will be lost.
73.Sh ERRORS
74The
75.Fn getmntinfo
76function
77may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library
78routines
79.Xr getfsstat 2
80or
81.Xr malloc 3 .
82.Sh SEE ALSO
83.Xr getfsstat 2 ,
84.Xr mount 2 ,
85.Xr statfs 2 ,
86.Xr mount 8
87.Sh HISTORY
88The
89.Fn getmntinfo
90function first appeared in
91.Bx 4.4 .
92.Sh BUGS
93The
94.Fn getmntinfo
95function writes the array of structures to an internal static object
96and returns
97a pointer to that object.
98Subsequent calls to
99.Fn getmntinfo
100will modify the same object.
101.Pp
102The memory allocated by
103.Fn getmntinfo
104cannot be
105.Xr free 3 Ns 'd
106by the application.
107