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Date:      Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:46:16 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mntent.h - what is it?
Message-ID:  <20000410134616.A27553@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <38F23839.1B21FF07@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:23:21PM -0600
References:  <200004091630.SAA02426@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000410114245.A11090@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <38F23839.1B21FF07@softweyr.com>

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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

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