Hi all,

Note that my knowledge about C is very limited so please forgive my ignorance.

I am reading /etc/mtab.
The goal is to have the mountpoints from those lines.
In most programming languages there are some methods like "split" and "section" in QString, ...
So the part I want is seperated by spaces.

I wonder if there is an easy way to accomplish this or if I should check out the position of the first space, then strcpy , check the first space in that new string, then do the strcpy or strdup again.
This seems rather complicated.

Thanks in advance for any advice/help!

Actually this seems a rather good candidate:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs...ns/strtok.html

If you're using Linux, /proc/mounts has more reliable information in a more machine-readable format. You can also use fscanf to avoid a lot of the mess involved with tokenizing since the file format is consistent. Here's another thread that deals with reading mount points in C (see post #8), although a lot more was required of that operation.
Kevin Barry

In the end I decided to go for just sending the whole line to the client.
This gives the client the ability to have more data about the mountpoints. (for example if they are mounted through bind, are nfs mounts, ...)

Thanks for your advice and the link to the thread. I have read it and that will probably come in handy in the future