getfsent(3) — Linux manual page

NAME | LIBRARY | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ATTRIBUTES | VERSIONS | STANDARDS | HISTORY | NOTES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

getfsent(3)             Library Functions Manual             getfsent(3)

NAME         top

       getfsent, getfsspec, getfsfile, setfsent, endfsent - handle fstab
       entries

LIBRARY         top

       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <fstab.h>

       int setfsent(void);
       struct fstab *getfsent(void);
       void endfsent(void);

       struct fstab *getfsfile(const char *mount_point);
       struct fstab *getfsspec(const char *special_file);

DESCRIPTION         top

       These functions read from the file /etc/fstab.  The struct fstab
       is defined by:

           struct fstab {
               char       *fs_spec;       /* block device name */
               char       *fs_file;       /* mount point */
               char       *fs_vfstype;    /* filesystem type */
               char       *fs_mntops;     /* mount options */
               const char *fs_type;       /* rw/rq/ro/sw/xx option */
               int         fs_freq;       /* dump frequency, in days */
               int         fs_passno;     /* pass number on parallel dump */
           };

       Here the field fs_type contains (on a *BSD system) one of the
       five strings "rw", "rq", "ro", "sw", "xx" (read-write, read-write
       with quota, read-only, swap, ignore).

       The function setfsent() opens the file when required and
       positions it at the first line.

       The function getfsent() parses the next line from the file.
       (After opening it when required.)

       The function endfsent() closes the file when required.

       The function getfsspec() searches the file from the start and
       returns the first entry found for which the fs_spec field matches
       the special_file argument.

       The function getfsfile() searches the file from the start and
       returns the first entry found for which the fs_file field matches
       the mount_point argument.

RETURN VALUE         top

       Upon success, the functions getfsent(), getfsfile(), and
       getfsspec() return a pointer to a struct fstab, while setfsent()
       returns 1.  Upon failure or end-of-file, these functions return
       NULL and 0, respectively.

ATTRIBUTES         top

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).
       ┌──────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────────────────────┐
       │ Interface    Attribute     Value                          │
       ├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
       │ endfsent(),  │ Thread safety │ MT-Unsafe race:fsent           │
       │ setfsent()   │               │                                │
       ├──────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────────────────────┤
       │ getfsent(),  │ Thread safety │ MT-Unsafe race:fsent locale    │
       │ getfsspec(), │               │                                │
       │ getfsfile()  │               │                                │
       └──────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

VERSIONS         top

       Several operating systems have these functions, for example,
       *BSD, SunOS, Digital UNIX, AIX (which also has a getfstype()).
       HP-UX has functions of the same names, that however use a struct
       checklist instead of a struct fstab, and calls these functions
       obsolete, superseded by getmntent(3).

STANDARDS         top

       None.

HISTORY         top

       The getfsent() function appeared in 4.0BSD; the other four
       functions appeared in 4.3BSD.

NOTES         top

       These functions are not thread-safe.

       Since Linux allows mounting a block special device in several
       places, and since several devices can have the same mount point,
       where the last device with a given mount point is the interesting
       one, while getfsfile() and getfsspec() only return the first
       occurrence, these two functions are not suitable for use under
       Linux.

SEE ALSO         top

       getmntent(3), fstab(5)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the man-pages (Linux kernel and C library
       user-space interface documentation) project.  Information about
       the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/⟩.  If you have a bug report
       for this manual page, see
       ⟨https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/CONTRIBUTING⟩.
       This page was obtained from the tarball man-pages-6.9.1.tar.gz
       fetched from
       ⟨https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/⟩ on
       2024-06-26.  If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML
       version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-
       to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or
       improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not
       part of the original manual page), send a mail to
       [email protected]

Linux man-pages 6.9.1          2024-05-02                    getfsent(3)