Re: [Boost-users] filesystem statistics

"Thomas Matelich" wrote in message news:3944d45805062213536c52a507@mail.gmail.com...

On 6/22/05, Beman Dawes wrote:

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"Thomas Matelich" wrote in message news:3944d45805062113231fa767ff@mail.gmail.com...

Probably a dumb question, but why did you use and statfs() instead of the POSIX and statvfs()? Were they not present on some of the target systems?

I would like to include the functionality in Boost.Filesystem, but am concerned because POSIX lists it as optional.

I started with our legacy HP implementation as a reference and didn't need to change it for linux, so I didn't even notice that there was a different header. :-)

Understood. Does the legacy HP implementation also supply and statvfs()?

I'd be fairly surprised if a platform supported by Filesystem didn't have a way to determine disk space. Well, I guess not all that surprised. Murphy's always waitin'.

Yep. But that isn't necessarily a showstopper. 1.34 will add a function to create hard links, and just document the fact that it will always fail on some file systems. To me the key platforms are POSIX/Windows/Linux/Solaris/MacOS/HPux/AIX. If we get uniform behavior across those platforms, it is OK if a function can't succeed on more obscure platforms. --Beman