NAME

BSD::Getfsent - Get file system descriptor file entry

SYNOPSIS

use BSD::Getfsent qw(getfsent);

while (@entry = getfsent()) {
   print "@entry\n";
}

FUNCTIONS

getfsent

In list context, each file system entry is returned (getfsent() continuously reads the next line of the /etc/fstab file).

The list returned is structured as follows:

$entry[0]    # block special device name
$entry[1]    # file system path prefix
$entry[2]    # type of file system
$entry[3]    # comma separated mount options
$entry[4]    # rw, ro, sw, or xx
$entry[5]    # dump frequency, in days
$entry[6]    # pass number on parallel fsck

In scalar context, total of entries is returned.

FILES

/etc/fstab

EXPORT

getfsent() is exportable.

BUGS & CAVEATS

BSD::Getfsent was, as it name suggests, developed for BSD-like systems. It may be nevertheless suitable for other UNIX-like systems, including Linux, but remains untested. Bear in mind, that tests will fail if no /etc/fstab can be found (in order that testing on systems like Windows, where no /etc/fstab exists, doesn't result in a false positive).

SEE ALSO

fstab(5), getfsent(3)

AUTHOR

Steven Schubiger <schubiger@cpan.org>

LICENSE

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/