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36.Dd June 9, 1993
37.Dt GETMNTINFO 3
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm getmntinfo
41.Nd get information about mounted file systems
42.Nm getmntvinfo
43.Nd get extended information about mounted file systems
44.Sh LIBRARY
45.Lb libc
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.In sys/param.h
48.In sys/ucred.h
49.In sys/mount.h
50.Ft int
51.Fn getmntinfo "struct statfs **mntbufp" "int flags"
52.Ft int
53.Fn getmntvinfo "struct statfs **mntbufp" "struct statvfs **mntvbufp" "int flags"
54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55The
56.Fn getmntinfo
57function
58returns an array of
59.Fn statfs
60structures describing each currently mounted file system (see
61.Xr statfs 2 ) .
62.Pp
63The
64.Fn getmntinfo
65function
66passes its
67.Fa flags
68argument transparently to
69.Xr getfsstat 2 .
70.Sh RETURN VALUES
71On successful completion,
72.Fn getmntinfo
73returns a count of the number of elements in the array.
74The pointer to the array is stored into
75.Fa mntbufp .
76.Pp
77If an error occurs, zero is returned and the external variable
78.Va errno
79is set to indicate the error.
80Although the pointer
81.Fa mntbufp
82will be unmodified, any information previously returned by
83.Fn getmntinfo
84will be lost.
85.Pp
86The
87.Fn getmntvinfo
88function
89returns an array of
90.Fn statfs
91and
92.Fn statvfs
93structures describing each currently mounted file system (see
94.Xr statfs 2 ) ,
95and otherwise works like
96.Fn getmntinfo .
97.Sh ERRORS
98The
99.Fn getmntinfo
100function may fail and set
101.Va errno
102for any of the errors specified for the library routines
103.Xr getfsstat 2
104.Xr getvfsstat 2
105or
106.Xr malloc 3 .
107.Sh SEE ALSO
108.Xr getfsstat 2 ,
109.Xr mount 2 ,
110.Xr statfs 2 ,
111.Xr mount 8
112.Sh HISTORY
113The
114.Fn getmntinfo
115function first appeared in
116.Bx 4.4 .
117.Sh BUGS
118The
119.Fn getmntinfo
120function writes the array of structures to an internal static object
121and returns
122a pointer to that object.
123Subsequent calls to
124.Fn getmntinfo
125will modify the same object.
126.Pp
127The memory allocated by
128.Fn getmntinfo
129cannot be
130.Xr free 3 Ns 'd
131by the application.
132