proposed libc interface and man page for statmount(2)

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 22:01, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:

> But I don't think the allocating one needs a size hint.   Your
> suggestion of passing a buffer on the stack to the syscall and then
> copying to an exact sized malloc should take care of it.   If the
> stack buffer is sized generously, then the loop will never need to
> repeat for any real life case.

       int statmount(uint64_t mnt_id, uint64_t request_mask,
                   struct statmount *buf, size_t bufsize, unsigned int flags);

       struct statmount *statmount_alloc(uint64_t mnt_id,
                   uint64_t request_mask, unsigned int flags);

Updated man page attached.

Thanks,
Miklos
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