On 19 sep 2006, at 15:11, Rainer Stratmann wrote:
Second question is how to mount and umount for example "/dev/sda1"
in a fpc
program.
Generic solution to this sort of problem:
a) look up how it has to be done in C
b) if it's a "standard" C function, just translate the prototype to
Pascal and call it.
In this case, "man 2 mount" gives:
#include <sys/mount.h>
int mount(const char *source, const char *target, const char
*filesystemtype, unsigned long mountflags, const void *data);
So this becomes
uses ctypes;
{$linklib c}
function mount(source, target, filesystemtype: pchar; mountflags:
culong; data: pointer); cdecl; external;
For the flags values, look in /usr/include/sys/mount. It contains
enum
{
MS_RDONLY = 1, /* Mount read-only. */
#define MS_RDONLY MS_RDONLY
MS_NOSUID = 2, /* Ignore suid and sgid bits. */
#define MS_NOSUID MS_NOSUID
etc.
So that becomes
const
MS_RDONLY = 1;
MS_NOSUID = 2;
etc.
You can also try running h2pas on it, but I don't know if it can cope
with an "enum" definition like that (and if it translates it into a
Pascal enumeration, you won't be able to "or" the values together).
If you are allergic to linking to libc, you can also try to translate
it to a syscall.
The easiest solution is probably however simply calling the command
line utility "mount" from within your program. That's the least
likely to break, does not require libc linking either, the simplest
to implement and does not require any C knowledge whatsoever.
Jonas
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