mount(3R)                         NFS 5.4.2                        mount(3R)


NAME
       mount - keep track of remotely mounted filesystems

PROTOCOL
       /usr/include/rpcsvc/mount.x

DESCRIPTION
       The mount protocol is separate from, but related to, the NFS
       protocol.  It provides all of the operating system specific services
       to get the NFS off the ground -- looking up path names, validating
       user identity, and checking access permissions. Clients use the mount
       protocol to get the first file handle, which allows them entry into a
       remote filesystem.

       The mount protocol is kept separate from the NFS protocol to make it
       easy to plug in new access checking and validation methods without
       changing the NFS server protocol.

       Note: the protocol definition implies stateful servers because the
       server maintains a list of client's mount requests. The mount list
       information is not critical for the correct functioning of either the
       client or the server. It is intended for advisory use only, for
       example, to warn people when a server is going down.  Programs that
       use this protocol must be loaded using the flag -l rpcsvc.

PROGRAMMING
       #include <rpcsvc/mount.h>

       The following XDR routines are available in librpcsvc:
       xdrexportbody
       xdrexports
       xdrfhandle
       xdrfhstatus
       xdrgroups
       xdrmountbody
       xdrmountlist
       xdrpath

SEE ALSO
       mount(1M), mountd(1M), showmount(1M), xdr(3N).

















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