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