From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-06-22T23:43:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ext portability question

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:13:13 +0900,
> Ara.T.Howard wrote in [ruby-talk:104311]:
>> i've got a little statfs ext which works fine.  the man page, however, claim
>> subtly different struct statfs layouts for different *nixes.  what is the
>> preferred method for dealing with this?  the struct is exposed to ruby via a
>> wrapped struct so the layout actual cannot be abstracted.  right now i am
>> considering:
>
> $ ruby18 -v -rmkmf -e 'have_struct_member("struct statfs", "f_blocks", "sys/statfs.h")'
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-06-19) [i686-linux]
> checking for struct statfs.f_blocks... yes
>
> --
> Nobu Nakada

never knew about that one - guess i need to read mkmf!  thanks.

-a
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