mount failed, errno is 20?

Question

I'm newbie in linux program. why following code failed? its output is "failed 20". but in terminal the command: sudo mount /dev/sdb /home/abc/work/tmp works.

void main()
{
    int rtn;

    rtn=mount("/dev/sdb","/home/abc/work/tmp","vfat",MS_BIND,"");  
    if (rtn==-1)
        printf("failed %d.\n",errno);
    else
        printf("OK!\n");
}

Answer 1

Error 20 is ENOTDIR (http://www-numi.fnal.gov/offline_software/srt_public_context/WebDocs/Errors/unix_system_errors.html).

I think with MS_BIND, you would need the first argument to be an actual directory somewhere, not a device. See also the man page for mount

What you are trying to do would be equivalent to sudo mount --bind /dev/sdb /home/abc/work/temp which will give you an error too.