Re: (un)mount ramfs from C code

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>]

On 22.09.2009 09:04, Brian McGrew wrote:
> Good morning all!
> 
> So I'm using a ramfs for temporary files, thank you whoever designed that,
> it works great!
> 
> I can mkdir, mount, chmoud, readand write and then umount the thing from the
> command line just fine.
> 
> What I need now is some method from within my C/C++ code to determine if the
> ramfs is mounted, if not, then mount it so I can use it and unmount it when
> I'm done, without making a system call.
> 
> Can this be done?  Is there any access to mount/unmount from C/C++?

The "/bin/mountpoint"-util appears to stat the mountpoint and it's 
parent directory and compares if they have the same device-no (st_dev). 
If they are different, then something is mounted.






Bis denn

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