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check if file system is mounted - perl

 
itai weisman
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‎03-27-2008 04:00 AM

‎03-27-2008 04:00 AM

check if file system is mounted - perl

hello,
does anyone know how can I check wheter a file system is mounted, on a perl script ? without involving any operating system commands - I need to write something which is operating system independed (including windows)
thanks
Itai
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James R. Ferguson
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‎03-27-2008 04:20 AM

‎03-27-2008 04:20 AM

Re: check if file system is mounted - perl

Hi:

At least in UNIX, a mountpoint will always have its inode equal to two (2):

# perl -le '$dir=shift or die;die "not a dir\n" unless -d $dir;printf "%s a mountpoint\n",(stat _)[1]==2 ? "is":"not"' /path

Regards!

...JRF...
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