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30.Dd December 27, 2016
31.Dt GETMNTINFO 3
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm getmntinfo
35.Nd get information about mounted file systems
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libc
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In sys/param.h
40.In sys/ucred.h
41.In sys/mount.h
42.Ft int
43.Fn getmntinfo "struct statfs **mntbufp" "int mode"
44.Sh DESCRIPTION
45The
46.Fn getmntinfo
47function
48returns an array of
49.Fn statfs
50structures describing each currently mounted file system (see
51.Xr statfs 2 ) .
52.Pp
53The
54.Fn getmntinfo
55function
56passes its
57.Fa mode
58argument transparently to
59.Xr getfsstat 2 .
60.Sh RETURN VALUES
61On successful completion,
62.Fn getmntinfo
63returns a count of the number of elements in the array.
64The pointer to the array is stored into
65.Fa mntbufp .
66.Pp
67If an error occurs, zero is returned and the external variable
68.Va errno
69is set to indicate the error.
70Although the pointer
71.Fa mntbufp
72will be unmodified, any information previously returned by
73.Fn getmntinfo
74will be lost.
75.Sh ERRORS
76The
77.Fn getmntinfo
78function
79may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library
80routines
81.Xr getfsstat 2
82or
83.Xr malloc 3 .
84.Sh SEE ALSO
85.Xr getfsstat 2 ,
86.Xr mount 2 ,
87.Xr statfs 2 ,
88.Xr mount 8
89.Sh HISTORY
90The
91.Fn getmntinfo
92function first appeared in
93.Bx 4.4 .
94.Sh BUGS
95The
96.Fn getmntinfo
97function writes the array of structures to an internal static object
98and returns
99a pointer to that object.
100Subsequent calls to
101.Fn getmntinfo
102will modify the same object.
103.Pp
104The memory allocated by
105.Fn getmntinfo
106cannot be
107.Xr free 3 Ns 'd
108by the application.
109