sysfs

NAME

sysfs - get file system type information

SYNOPSIS

I int sysfs(int option , const char * fsname ); I int sysfs(int option , unsigned int fs_index , char * buf ); I int sysfs(int option );

DESCRIPTION

R sysfs () returns information about the file system types currently present in the kernel. The specific form of the R sysfs () call and the information returned depends on the option in effect:
1
Translate the file-system identifier string fsname into a file-system type index.
2
Translate the file-system type index fs_index into a null-terminated file-system identifier string. This string will be written to the buffer pointed to by R buf . Make sure that buf has enough space to accept the string.
3
Return the total number of file system types currently present in the kernel.
The numbering of the file-system type indexes begins with zero.

RETURN VALUE

On success, R sysfs () returns the file-system index for option R 1 , zero for option R 2 , and the number of currently configured file systems for option R 3 . On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

EFAULT
Either fsname or buf is outside your accessible address space.
EINVAL
fsname is not a valid file-system type identifier; fs_index is out-of-bounds; option is invalid.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4.

NOTES

On Linux with the proc filesystem mounted on R /proc , the same information can be derived from R /proc/filesystems .

BUGS

There is no libc or glibc support. There is no way to guess how large buf should be.