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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:13:42 +0300
From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
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To: Brian McGrew <brian@visionpro.com>
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Subject: Re: (un)mount ramfs from C code
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On 09/22/2009 07:04 PM, 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.
>
> Can this be done?  Is there any access to mount/unmount from C/C++?

I suppose looking at the source code of the 'mount' utility could prove 
very enlightening.  You can find it at:

   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng
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