Re: (un)mount ramfs from C code

[Luciano Rocha]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:04:15AM -0700, Brian McGrew wrote:
> Good morning all!
> 
> So I'm using a ramfs for temporary files, thank you whoever designed that,
> it works great!
> 
> I can mkdir, mount, chmoud, readand write and then umount the thing from the
> command line just fine.
> 
> What I need now is some method from within my C/C++ code to determine if the
> ramfs is mounted, if not, then mount it so I can use it and unmount it when
> I'm done, without making a system call.

You mean without using system(3), right? System call is how your program
interacts with the outside world.

The relevant system calls are:
  - mount(2): mount("none", "/mnt", "ramfs", 0, NULL);
  - umount(2): umount("/mnt");

The function(section) is the standard Unix way of specifying the manual
section of the function. Use it like this:
  $ man 2 mount

About checking whether it is already mounted, you could parse the file
/proc/mounts, or check the result of statfs(2).

Regards,
Luciano Rocha

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