11.23 mntent.h

Defines the type struct mntent and the macros MNTTAB, MOUNTED, MNTTYPE_*, MNTOPT_*, and declares the functions setmntent, getmntent, getmntent_r, addmntent, endmntent, hasmntopt.

Documentation:

• http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/mtab.html,
• man setmntent.

Gnulib module: —

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This header file is missing on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 4.3.2, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
• The function getmntent_r is missing on all non-glibc platforms: AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Cygwin.

Gnulib module mountlist provides a higher-level abstraction.