From: martin@... (Martin v. Loewis)
Date: 2002-01-04T11:51:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:30176] Re: How to check free diskspace?

Rik Hemsley <rik@kde.org> writes:

> Can't find it in OpenBSD's includes.
> 
> So, nice that it exists, but if it doesn't work cross-platform, it's
> pretty useless. If it's a POSIX standard, it's OpenBSD's fault.

It is a POSIX standard function; and yes, it is a well-known problem
that BSD doesn't follow the relevant standards here. BSD traditionally
supports statfs(2) instead. It would be possible to synthesize an API
that provides the common subset; this subset does include free
diskspace information.

Regards,
Martin