C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
Henry Spencer
henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Thu Oct 11 03:10:55 AEST 1990
In article <2704 at sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser at tdw201.ed.ray.com writes:
>... problems with one file -- spacefor. If the cnews people are
>interested, I will send you (the file, diffs, or whatever format you like)
>showing what has to be done to make it work on Esix...
Actually, I now count spacefor as a failed approach, and am in the early
stages of doing something better. The problem is that there is far too
much senseless diversity in df output format, much more than I thought
in my young and innocent days. :-)
In the works is a version that puts the actual space-finding in C, using
the two or three different flavors of how-much-space-is-there system
calls, but keeps the choice of threshold out of the C code so it's easy
to change. It's tricky to get all this right, especially with a df-based
fallback for really old systems, but I think I know how to do it, and it
should be significantly less hassle than relying on df. Sigh.
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