Is there a portable alternative to mount() ?

Is there a portable alternative to mount() ?

[Bryan Christ]

Does anyone know?

Re: Is there a portable alternative to mount() ?

[Glynn Clements]

Bryan Christ wrote:

> Is there a portable alternative to mount() ?

In general, no.

Running the "mount" program will work for simple cases (e.g.
"mount <dir>" where <dir> is in /etc/fstab) on most Unix systems.

Beyond that, the names of devices, the types of filesystem which are
supported, etc, are all highly platform specific.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>

Re: Is there a portable alternative to mount() ?

[Raseel Bhagat]

On 8/16/07, Bryan Christ <bryan.christ@hp.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know?

Do you mean something like the mount command in Busybox ? It has been
ported for PPC , ARM , MIPS and many more architectures .

Thanks,
Raseel.
http://www.opensorucedeal.com
http://screwgoth.blogspex.com

Re: Is there a portable alternative to mount() ?

[Bryan Christ]

Maybe I need to look into the source for Busybox and see what they do. 
What I was looking for though is a portable group of functions similar 
in fucntion to the Linux mount() in sys/mount.h

Raseel Bhagat wrote:
> On 8/16/07, Bryan Christ <bryan.christ@hp.com> wrote:
>> Does anyone know?
> 
> Do you mean something like the mount command in Busybox ? It has been
> ported for PPC , ARM , MIPS and many more architectures .
> 
> Thanks,
> Raseel.
> http://www.opensorucedeal.com
> http://screwgoth.blogspex.com
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