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Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:41:37 +0100
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: bug in statfs
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On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:03:41PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
> Hi,
> POSIX specifies struct statfs to contain slots f_frsize, f_flag,
> f_favail, and f_namemax and to be declared in <sys/statvfs.h>:
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/sys/statvfs.h.html>
> 
> Cygwin defines struct statfs without slots f_frsize, f_flag, and
> f_favail, and with f_namelen instead of f_namemax, in sys/vfs.h (also
> included from sys/statfs.h) and does not come with sys/statvfs.h.

Sure.  It's struct *statfs*, not struct *statvfs*.  We also have a
statfs system call, not statvfs.  So you're talking about adding a
new system call.

> Any change this might get rectified in the nearest future?

Any important information you can't get from statfs?  Otherwise it's
a matter of time and interest, as usual.

Corinna

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