[lsb-discuss] Is getmntent() not in the standard?

[Jiri Dluhos]

On Monday 16 October 2006 16:52, you wrote:
> >I have tried to build coreutils with lsbcc and found that the
> >configure script is not able to find any system call to
> >determine the mounted filesystems; I believe this should be
> >getmntent() on Linux.
> >
> >And indeed, it is not in LSB headers. I even could not find it
> >in the specs; is it possible that this function is not part
> >of the standard? If it is, do we have any other way of
> >determining mounts?
>
> These can be answered very briefly:  yes, and no.  It is
> intentional, although personally I was not all that convinced
> by the reasoning (which was that "system administration" type
> utilities are the only ones that would need this, and they're
> not really part of the scope of LSB).
>
> -- mats

Oops, not exactly the answer I'd be happy to hear :-)

But thank you for information.

Is there a chance for changing this decision for the next spec?

I think enumerating mounted devices is not such a low-level task, I can 
imagine normal applications that would use it (for example a filemanager). 
Additionally, this makes building LSB-clean environment harder because I need 
to build at least some tools outside, increasing the chances of error.

Best regards,

    Jiri Dluhos

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