Bryan Christ wrote: > Is there a portable alternative to mount() ? 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 <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html