How do "df" from within a C program?

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.umd.edu
Sat Dec 23 05:49:09 AEST 1989


In article <1989Dec22.121735.18455 at virtech.uucp> cpcahil at virtech.uucp
(Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>For BSD I don't know of any special system call to support this kind
>of operation.  You might need to read the superblock or parse the df outupt.

Sufficiently recent versions of BSD (i.e., 4.4) have a statfs() system
call like the one in SunOS and SysRel 4.  (There are some differences
with which I am unfamiliar.)
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