[Patches] [ python-Patches-444750 ] os.statvfs support for BSD

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Patches item #444750, was opened at 2001-07-26 04:20
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Category: library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 3
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: os.statvfs support for BSD

Initial Comment:
BSD systems have the statfs(2) call; we use that one to fake statvfs(). See the code for more comments.


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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2001-07-28 02:10

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I think fstatfs cannot be used to emulate statvfs, since 
it expects a file descriptor, not a path. It would be very 
confusing if the function is there on some system but does 
not expect a path.

In general, I feel that this emulation is not appropriate.
posix exposes system calls as-is, so it should add statfs 
and fstatfs calls, instead of trying to emulate statvfs. 
It might then be useful to put a function into os to 
portably access pieces of information, e.g. free disk 
space.


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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2001-07-26 04:26

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Oops, in case there are questions left, here's my email address:
tg@FreeBSD.org.

tg


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