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32.\"     @(#)getmntinfo.3	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
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35.Dd June 9, 1993
36.Dt GETMNTINFO 3
37.Os
38.Sh NAME
39.Nm getmntinfo
40.Nd get information about mounted file systems
41.Sh SYNOPSIS
42.Fd #include <sys/param.h>
43.Fd #include <sys/ucred.h>
44.Fd #include <sys/mount.h>
45.Ft int
46.Fn getmntinfo "struct statfs **mntbufp" "int flags"
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Fn getmntinfo
50function
51returns an array of
52.Fn statfs
53structures describing each currently mounted file system (see
54.Xr statfs 2 ) .
55.Pp
56The
57.Fn getmntinfo
58function
59passes its
60.Fa flags
61parameter transparently to
62.Xr getfsstat 2 .
63.Sh RETURN VALUES
64On successful completion,
65.Fn getmntinfo
66returns a count of the number of elements in the array.
67The pointer to the array is stored into
68.Fa mntbufp .
69.Pp
70If an error occurs, zero is returned and the external variable
71.Va errno
72is set to indicate the error.
73Although the pointer
74.Fa mntbufp
75will be unmodified, any information previously returned by
76.Fn getmntinfo
77will be lost.
78.Sh ERRORS
79The
80.Fn getmntinfo
81function
82may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library
83routines
84.Xr getfsstat 2
85or
86.Xr malloc 3 .
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr getfsstat 2 ,
89.Xr mount 2 ,
90.Xr statfs 2 ,
91.Xr mount 8
92.Sh HISTORY
93The
94.Fn getmntinfo
95function first appeared in
96.Bx 4.4 .
97.Sh BUGS
98The
99.Fn getmntinfo
100function writes the array of structures to an internal static object
101and returns
102a pointer to that object.
103Subsequent calls to
104.Fn getmntinfo
105will modify the same object.
106.Pp
107The memory allocated by
108.Fn getmntinfo
109cannot be
110.Xr free 3 Ns 'd
111by the application.
112