Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:25:18 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mntent.h - what is it? Message-ID: <38F2A92E.6C0693E1@softweyr.com> References: <200004091630.SAA02426@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000410114245.A11090@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <38F23839.1B21FF07@softweyr.com> <20000410134616.A27553@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote:
>
> 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. ;-)
I repeat: imagine that.
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