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