SYSFS(2) |
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SYSFS(2) |
NAME
sysfs - get file system type information
SYNOPSIS
int sysfs(int
option
, const char *
fsname
);
int sysfs(int
option
, unsigned int
fs_index
, char *
buf
);
int sysfs(int
option
);
DESCRIPTION
sysfs() returns information about the file system types currently present in the kernel. The specific form of the
sysfs() call and the information returned depends on the
option in effect:
-
1
-
Translate the file-system identifier string
fsname into a file-system type index.
-
2
-
Translate the file-system type index
fs_index into a null-terminated file-system identifier string. This string will be written to the buffer pointed to by
buf. Make sure that
buf has enough space to accept the string.
-
3
-
Return the total number of file system types currently present in the kernel.
The numbering of the file-system type indexes begins with zero.
RETURN VALUE
On success,
sysfs() returns the file-system index for option
1, zero for option
2, and the number of currently configured file systems for option
3. On error, -1 is returned, and
errno is set appropriately.
ERRORS
-
EFAULT
-
Either
fsname or
buf is outside your accessible address space.
-
EINVAL
-
fsname is not a valid file-system type identifier;
fs_index is out-of-bounds;
option is invalid.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4.
NOTES
This System-V derived system call is obsolete; don't use it. On systems with
/proc, the same information can be obtained via
/proc/filesystems; use that interface instead.
BUGS
There is no libc or glibc support. There is no way to guess how large
buf should be.
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux
man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.