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Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/03/22/07:52:37

Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 15:51:13 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: mkdir and errno
In-Reply-To: <199803200131.UAA10178@delorie.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980322155052.12221H-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > If you don't want a call to statfs() in mkdir's source, is it ok to 
> > call INT21/0x36 directly?
> 
> If it doesn't work under VFAT, it doesn't make sense to add it.

`statfs' *does* work on VFAT.  The problem is only with FAT32 drives,
and only if they are larger than 2GB.  (None of the libc functions
currently support FAT32 very well.)

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