.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:46:57 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified 961109, 031115, aeb
.\"
-.TH GETMNTENT 3 2009-09-15 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETMNTENT 3 2015-01-22 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
getmntent, setmntent, addmntent, endmntent, hasmntopt,
getmntent_r \- get filesystem descriptor file entry
.sp
.BI "FILE *setmntent(const char *" filename ", const char *" type );
.sp
-.BI "struct mntent *getmntent(FILE *" fp );
+.BI "struct mntent *getmntent(FILE *" stream );
.sp
-.BI "int addmntent(FILE *" fp ", const struct mntent *" mnt );
+.BI "int addmntent(FILE *" stream ", const struct mntent *" mnt );
.sp
-.BI "int endmntent(FILE *" fp );
+.BI "int endmntent(FILE *" streamp );
.sp
.BI "char *hasmntopt(const struct mntent *" mnt ", const char *" opt );
.sp
/* GNU extension */
.B #include <mntent.h>
.sp
-.BI "struct mntent *getmntent_r(FILE *" fp ", struct mntent *" mntbuf ,
+.BI "struct mntent *getmntent_r(FILE *" streamp ", struct mntent *" mntbuf ,
.BI " char *" buf ", int " buflen );
.fi
.sp
.PP
The
.BR getmntent ()
-function reads the next line from the filesystem
-description file
-.I fp
+function reads the next line of the filesystem
+description file from
+.I stream
and returns a pointer to a structure
containing the broken out fields from a line in the file.
The pointer
structure
.I mnt
to
-the end of the open file
-.IR fp .
+the end of the open
+.IR stream .
.PP
The
.BR endmntent ()
-function closes the filesystem description file
-.IR fp .
+function closes the
+.IR stream
+associated with the filesystem description file.
.PP
The
.BR hasmntopt ()
.BR fstab (5),
.BR mount (8)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.67 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,