Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Spam-Filter: check_local AT alphatech DOT com 4.4(020923:1754) http://digitalanswers.org/ To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: bug in statfs Reply-To: sds AT gnu DOT org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. From: Sam Steingold Organization: disorganization References: <20031204094137 DOT GT1640 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:27:14 -0500 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:iyTgm2ej5gi3XghnkhUmVu4g0+U= In-Reply-To: <20031204094137.GT1640@cygbert.vinschen.de> (Corinna Vinschen's message of "Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:41:37 +0100") MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Posted-To: gmane.os.cygwin The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.os.cygwin as well. > * Corinna Vinschen [2003-12-04 10:41:37 +0100]: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:03:41PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: >> POSIX specifies struct statvfs to contain slots f_frsize, f_flag, >> f_favail, and f_namemax and to be declared in : >> >> >> 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. yes, I realized that myself (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin:41294). >> 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. I cannot get f_frsize, f_flag, and f_favail. This is also a portability issue. PS. Is there a POSIX way to get the list of mount points, lime mount(1) and df(1) do? It appears that linux has /proc/mounts and most unixes have /etc/mtab, but is there a system call? thanks. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k History doesn't repeat itself, but historians do repeat each other. -- 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/