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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do "df" from within a C program?
Message-ID: <21411@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 89 18:49:09 GMT
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In article <1989Dec22.121735.18455@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@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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