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12.23 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:

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

Gnulib module: mntent-h

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This header file is missing on some platforms: macOS 14, FreeBSD 14.0, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.5, Minix 3.1.8, Solaris 11.4, mingw, MSVC 14.
• The function getmntent_r is missing on all non-glibc platforms: AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, Cygwin, Android 9.0.

Gnulib module mountlist provides a higher-level abstraction.