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From: yun@cinnet.COM (Yun-seng Chao)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news vs B news speed
Message-ID: <1018@cniysc.cinnet.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 89 01:58:02 GMT
References: <1989Jul12.210254.8631@utzoo.uucp>
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From article <1989Jul12.210254.8631@utzoo.uucp>, by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
> In article <1989Jul9.223927.29156@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> david@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson) writes:
>>The other thing I have done which helps if you get many small
>>batches (ie from a once a minute NNTP sender) is to rewrite 'spacefor'
>>and 'sizeof' into C if you can.  Both are trivial to write but you
>>may need a statfs() system call for the former...
> 
> I'm contemplating doing some of this myself, in fact, although if I do
> use C for spacefor, it will probably popen("df") to do the actual space
> finding -- that job is just too system-dependent.

Uh, wasn't there something called "bdf" posted last year that was able to
parse the Sys V "df" command?  Why not use some of that code for usg
systems to do some of this parsing (with acknowledgements to the original
author, of course)?
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