11/3/71 SYS MOUNT (II)
NAME mount -- mount file system
SYNOPSIS sys mount; special; name / mount = 21.; not in assembler
DESCRIPTION mount announces to the system that a removable
file system has been mounted on special file spe-
cial; from now on, references to file name will
refer to the root file on the newly mounted file
system. Special and name are pointers to null-
terminated strings containing the appropriate
path names.
Name must exist already. If it had useful con-
tents, they are inaccessible while the file sys-
tem is mounted.
Almost always, name should be a directory so that
an entire file system, not just one file, may ex-
ist on the removable device.
FILES --
SEE ALSO umount
DIAGNOSTICS Error bit (c-bit) set if special is inaccessible
or dir does not exist.
BUGS At most one removable devices can be mounted at a
time. The use of this call should be restricted
to the super-used.
OWNER ken, dmr