From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 10 21:24:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E154637B573 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:24:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02489; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:24:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <38F2A92E.6C0693E1@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:25:18 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mntent.h - what is it? References: <200004091630.SAA02426@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000410114245.A11090@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <38F23839.1B21FF07@softweyr.com> <20000410134616.A27553@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message