On Mar 8 06:15, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Corinna Vinschen on 3/8/2006 5:55 AM: > > Cygwin can nothing do about that. Maybe df can by taking quotas into > > account. Eric? > > Not really. SUSv3/POSIX specify df without allowing it to take quotas > into account - so it is really space available on the file system, not > space available to the current user within the file system. However, you > may want to propose a GNU extension that adds a new option to df which > takes quotas into account; if so, raise the question on the > bug-coreutils<AT>gnu<DOT>org mailing list. But remember that reading disk > quotas isn't very portable, so it may be a difficult task to actually > provide a worthwhile patch along those lines.
Maybe Cygwin can do something about that by never returning more available than total blocks. Would that be helpful/desirable/correct, or sahould we just keep it as it is now? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
