Is there a portable alternative to mount() ?

Does anyone know?

In general, no.

Running the "mount" program will work for simple cases (e.g. "mount <dir>" where <dir> is in /etc/fstab) on most Unix systems.

Beyond that, the names of devices, the types of filesystem which are supported, etc, are all highly platform specific.

Glynn Clements <[email protected]>

Do you mean something like the mount command in Busybox ? It has been ported for PPC , ARM , MIPS and many more architectures .

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Maybe I need to look into the source for Busybox and see what they do. What I was looking for though is a portable group of functions similar in fucntion to the Linux mount() in sys/mount.h