mount(2) parameters

dao_at_snakebrook.com
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: 17 Jan 2005 19:06:52 -0800

Hi, I am trying to figure out the paremeters to the mount(2) system
call, in particular, the "void *data" parameter.

Specifically, is this parameter a pointer to a string (char*) set of
options, or is it the address of a "struct nfs_mount_data". I seem to
be reading conflicting things in the man pages.

Either way, I have tried both (a char* and a strcut nfs_mount_data and
mount(2) returns an error regardless of what I puch in for data.

I'm doing some liek the following:

mount("192.168.1.6:/fs45", "/fs54", "nfs", MS_RDONLY, data);

where data is either one of the following:

char *data=" ... ";

or

struct nfs_mount_data data;
Any help is appreciated.

Jack

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