Getting mount stats for filesystems

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Mitko Haralanov schrieb:
> Hi, I am trying to find a way to figure out whether a certain remote
> filesystem is mounted using tcp vs. udp in Python. I've looked at the
> statvfs call and module but they don't give me anything useful (the
> F_FLAGS field for both a tcp and a udp filesystem is the same.
> 
> I could, of course, get the output of mount and parse that but I would
> prefer something more elegant.

I'm not quite sure what you want to achieve. You are on machine B,
and you want to find out whether a remote file system (on machine A)
is mounted remotely (say, from machine C)?

How do you answer that question with  mount(8)?

Also, what is a tcp filesystem?

Regards,
Martin