Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news vs B news speed
Message-ID: <1989Jul14.163917.3489@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jul9.223927.29156@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> <1989Jul12.210254.8631@utzoo.uucp> <781@ctisbv.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 89 16:39:17 GMT

In article <781@ctisbv.UUCP> pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>>... it will probably popen("df") to do the actual space
>>finding -- that job is just too system-dependent.
>
>The following works for me on
>AT&T System V/386 r 3.2,
>System V r 3.1.1 on the AT&T 3B2,
>SCO Xenix,
>Microport System V/AT,
>AIX for the IBM PC RT.

All of them more or less System V based.  That's not all there is to the
Unix world, I'm afraid.  Of particular note are the systems that are old
enough that they have *no* system call to ask about free space (df paws
through the raw filesystems).
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