HP-UX Reference (11i v2 07/12) - 3 Library Functions A-M (vol 6)

getmntent(3X) getmntent(3X)

Programs should expect that the ﬁle accessed by these APIs may be write locked by another process

because setmntent() attempts to establish an exclusive write lock when opening it for write/update.

Use of a text editor to manipulate the ﬁle accessed by these APIs is not supported.

setmntent() and

endmntent() are safe for per process locking. setmntent()

, getmntent() , addmntent() ,

delmntent() , hasmntent() , and endmntent() are not safe to be called by a child process after

fork() but before exec().

AUTHOR

addmntent() , endmntent() , getmntent() , hasmntopt()

, and setmntent() were

developed by The University of California, Berkeley, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and HP.

delmntent()

was developed by HP.

FILES

/etc/fstab

/etc/mnttab