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From: "Joseph D. Wagner" <theman@josephdwagner.info>
Subject: Re: Remounting File Systems
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:03:16 +0600
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To: Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
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> > I'm writing a program that has to remount a file system on the fly for
> > the purpose of changing the mount flags.
> >
> > Is there any system function that can tell me what the mount flags are
> > for a currently mounted file system?
>
> setmntent/getmntent/endmntent, possibly in conjunction with hasmntopt.

Nice try, but there's still the unlikely chance that /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab 
have not been updated to reflect the CURRENTLY MOUNTED file system.

Joseph D. Wagner