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 -- 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
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