getmntent(3C)           LIBRARY FUNCTIONS           getmntent(3C)



NAME
     getmntent, getmntany - get mnttab file entry

SYNOPSIS
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <sys/mnttab.h>

     int getmntent (FILE *fp, struct mnttab *mp);

     int getmntany (FILE *fp, struct mnttab  *mp,  struct  mnttab
     *mpref);

DESCRIPTION
     getmntent and getmntany each fill in the  structure  pointed
     to  by  mp  with  the  broken-out  fields  of  a line in the
     /etc/mnttab file.  Each line in the file contains  a  mnttab
     structure, declared in the sys/mnttab.h header file:

          struct mnttab {
               char *mntspecial;
               char *mntmountp;
               char *mntfstype;
               char *mntmntopts;
               char *mnttime;
          };


     The fields have meanings described in mnttab(4).

     getmntent returns a pointer to the next mnttab structure  in
     the  file;  so  successive  calls  can be used to search the
     entire file.  getmntany searches the file referenced  by  fp
     until a match is found between a line in the file and mpref.
     mpref matches the line if  all  non-NULL  entries  in  mpref
     match the corresponding fields in the file.

     Note that these routines do not open, close, or  rewind  the
     file.

FILES
     /etc/mnttab

DIAGNOSTICS
     If the next entry is successfully read  by  getmntent  or  a
     match  is  found  with getmntany, 0 is returned.  If an end-
     of-file is encountered on reading,  these  functions  return
     -1.   If  an error is encountered, a value greater than 0 is
     returned.  The possible error values are:

     MNTTOOLONG         A line in the file exceeded the internal
                         buffer size of MNTLINEMAX.




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getmntent(3C)           LIBRARY FUNCTIONS           getmntent(3C)



     MNTTOOMANY         A line in the  file  contains  too  many
                         fields.

     MNTTOOFEW          A line in  the  file  contains  too  few
                         fields.

NOTES
     The members of the mnttab  structure  point  to  information
     contained in a static area, so it must be copied if it is to
     be saved.

SEE ALSO
     mnttab(4).










































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