From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 10 13:46:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B18BA37B5AB for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:46:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06176; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:46:16 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Wes Peters Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mntent.h - what is it? Message-ID: <20000410134616.A27553@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200004091630.SAA02426@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000410114245.A11090@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <38F23839.1B21FF07@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <38F23839.1B21FF07@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:23:21PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:23:21PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > This is a SysV-ish way to get info about mounted filesystems, so the > glibc manpage is completely stoned (imagine that). I know this existed > in SVR2, at least. I did some more investigating. A similarly named, but almost entierly different iterface apears in SysV. The Linux interface appears in SunOS 4.1.3. However, it's not in 4.3BSD Net/2 or Reno. Unless this was nuked in 4.3 it looks like this is infact a SunOSism that wandered into glibc. It appears that the authors sucessfully choose the least portable of the three available APIs. ;-) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message