Re: [boost] [filesystem] revised function to determine available filesystem space

From: Kon Lovett (klovett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-13 09:03:25

Hi,

statfs is a BSD creature, provided by BSD & BSD-derived (like Darwin) 
alike.

Maybe use the

         long	 f_bavail;   /* free blocks avail to non-superuser */

field rather than the

         long	 f_bfree;    /* free blocks in fs */

Best wishes,
Kon

On Sep 13, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:

>
> "Kevin Wheatley" <hxpro_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:43269DAA.3667BE36_at_cinesite.co.uk...
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> How safe is the assumption that uintmax_t is large enough nowadays 
>>> for
>>> any
>>> modern compiler on a system supporting large disks.
>>
>> Under IRIX, you would use statfs() to get the free space from a path,
>> that returns a structure composed of 2 relavent parts both are of type
>> long:
>>
>>          long    f_bsize;    /* Block size */
>>          long    f_bfree;    /* Count of free blocks */
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