Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:03:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: BUG: Bad call to GetFileSze in ext2fsprogs lib/ext2fs/getsize.c Message-ID: <20040914200322.GE5258@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <414532D7.8050506@agilent.com> <41472B3F.8030800@agilent.com> <414749A7.809@agilent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <414749A7.809@agilent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/