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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:57:06 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mount flags 
Message-ID:  <199810181657.AAA01806@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:48:39 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810181240390.348-100000@picnic.mat.net> 

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Chuck Robey wrote:
[..]
> I have a very recently broke thing that was happily using a call to
> statfs, to tell if it was an NFS filesystem or not.  Last time I had
> occasion to take a look at this, there were flags of the sort MOUNT_XXX,
> where the XXX could have been UFS, MFS, NFS, etc.  The application is
> specifically looking for MOUNT_NFS, and it's just not around anymore,
> that I can find.
> 
> I would be happy to find it, but I suspect that the method for detecting
> an NFS mounted FS has changed, so that the app should no longer use
> statfs.  That's kind of odd, because this port works on a lot of other
> systems which seem to do that fine.

What's wrong with the f_fstypename[] field in struct statfs?  It'll 
contain a string "nfs" or "ufs" etc..

Cheers,
-Peter




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