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Date:	Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:03:23 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: BUG: Bad call to GetFileSze in ext2fsprogs lib/ext2fs/getsize.c
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:42:31PM -0700, Earl Chew wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Let me again point out that a cygwin program shouldn't be doing *ANY OF
>>THIS*.
>>
>>It shouldn't be calling GetFileSize and it shouldn't be calling
>>CreateFile.
>
>I think part of the original motivation might have been that under
>some circumstances this set of programs needs to be used on
>drive partitions as opposed to files within those partitions.
>
>At that time there may have been no way within Cygwin to size
>a partition (statfs()?).

Cygwin has had statfs since 1997.

cgf

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