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Re: Win98: GetDiskFreeSpace fails on shares
On Jun 16 15:21, Dave Korn wrote:
> >From: Corinna Vinschen
> > Right, the idea being (right now) that data is missing to fill out the
> > statvfs datastructure.
>
> Well, we do have the number of bytes free, which is the main thing to get
> right. And SUS gives us wriggle-room:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/statvfs.html
>
> "It is unspecified whether all members of the statvfs structure have
> meaningful values on all file systems"
>
> So perhaps we could just choose a fake block size to report so long as the
> product of blocks*size gives the right result?
Sure, why not, as long as it's only done in case GetDiskFreeSpace returns
FALSE. Are you perhaps contemplating the idea to prepare a patch (hint,
hint, hippo)?
Corinna
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