Brooks Davis wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:23:21PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> > This is a SysV-ish way to get info about mounted filesystems, so the
> > glibc manpage is completely stoned (imagine that). I know this existed
> > in SVR2, at least.
>
> I did some more investigating. A similarly named, but almost entierly
> different iterface apears in SysV. The Linux interface appears in SunOS
> 4.1.3. However, it's not in 4.3BSD Net/2 or Reno. Unless this was
> nuked in 4.3 it looks like this is infact a SunOSism that wandered into
> glibc. It appears that the authors sucessfully choose the least
> portable of the three available APIs. ;-)
I repeat: imagine that.
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