GETMNTINFO(3)

NAME
getmntinfo getmntinfo64 - get information about mounted file systems

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/ucred.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
int
getmntinfo(struct statfs **mntbufp, int flags);

TRANSITIIONAL SYNOPSIS (NOW DEPRECATED)
int
getmntinfo64(struct statfs64 **mntbufp, int flags);

DESCRIPTION
The getmntinfo() function returns an array of statfs structures describing each currently mounted file system (see statfs(2)). As statfs(2) indicates, the structure is defined differently depending on whether the macro _DARWIN_FEATURE_64_BIT_INODE is defined (see stat(2) for more information on this macro).

The getmntinfo() function passes its flags argument transparently to getfsstat(2).

RETURN VALUES
On successful completion, getmntinfo() returns a count of the number of elements in the array. The pointer to the array is stored into mntbufp.

If an error occurs, zero is returned and the external variable errno is set to indicate the error. Although the pointer mntbufp will be unmodified, any information previously returned by getmntinfo() will be lost.

ERRORS
The getmntinfo() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library routines getfsstat(2) or malloc(3).

TRANSITIONAL DESCRIPTION (NOW DEPRECATED)
The getmntinfo64() routine is equivalent to its corresponding non-64-suffixed routine, when 64-bit inodes are in effect. It was added before there was support for the symbol variants, and so is now deprecated. Instead of using it, set the _DARWIN_USE_64_BIT_INODE macro before including header files to force 64-bit inode support.

The statfs64 structure used by this deprecated routine is the same as the statfs structure when 64-bit inodes are in effect.

SEE ALSO
getfsstat(2), mount(2), stat(2), statfs(2), mount(8)

HISTORY
The getmntinfo() function first appeared in 4.4BSD.

BUGS
The getmntinfo() function writes the array of structures to an internal static object and returns a pointer to that object. Subsequent calls to getmntinfo() will modify the same object.

The memory allocated by getmntinfo() cannot be free(3)'d by the application.