Trash Spec Idea

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:59:23AM +0100, João Valverde wrote:
>
> I have to disagree there. You're hard coding something that can be  
> provided dynamically by the kernel. I wrote some basic proof of concept  
> type code and it seems to work well. It prints to stdout all the mount  
> points associated with device nodes. Even as a command line tool maybe  
> it could fill a legitimate need if improved. I'm attaching it in case  
> anyone is interested, I hope that's OK.

Just in case you don't know, it seems that setmntent/getmntent are not
that portable. On sun (some solaris) the structures are different with
mnt_fstype
mnt_mountp
mnt_special
mnt_mntopts
mnt_time
I  guess it is what is explained in the NOTES in the getmntent(3) man
page on linux.

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Pat