On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 12:42:31PM -0700, Earl Chew wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Let me again point out that a cygwin program shouldn't be doing *ANY OF >>THIS*. >> >>It shouldn't be calling GetFileSize and it shouldn't be calling >>CreateFile. > >I think part of the original motivation might have been that under >some circumstances this set of programs needs to be used on >drive partitions as opposed to files within those partitions. > >At that time there may have been no way within Cygwin to size >a partition (statfs()?).
Cygwin has had statfs since 1997. cgf -- 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/
