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