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Subject: Re: getting mount points in kernel
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Siddharth Aggarwal said:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a system call to get all the mount points? In a user app, I guess
> I would probably parse the /etc/fstab, but how do I do it in the kernel?
>
> TIA,
> Sid.

>From userland: man getmntinfo, man getfsstat
>From kernel land: I'd have a look at the code for the syscall.

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Ryan Sommers
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