On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:21:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, lost the previous mail so can't continue the thread. > > I took a look at the sources as cgf suggested and > have the following question: > > in fhandler_proc.cc revision 1.36, > in function format_proc_partitions() : > > after getting the drive geometry with > 'IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY' > the size of the disk is calculated in bytes and this number is > right-shifted 6 bits, so that's a division by 64 and that maps > with the scaling difference of 16 between df and /proc/partitions. > > likewise after getting the drive's partition layout with > 'IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_LAYOUT' > the length of each parititions (which is in bytes) is again > right-shifted 6 bits. > > So why the right-shift 6 instead of 10 which would map > with a blocksize of 1K?
Thanks for tracking this down. I've applied a patch to Cygwin. You should find the corrected version in the next developers snapshot. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
