From: "James F.Hranicky" <jfh@...>
Date: 2002-04-17T12:58:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Help wanted for statvfs extension

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 05:04:06 +0900
"Daniel Berger" <djberg96@hotmail.com> wrote:

> First, I should mention that I wrote this with Ruby 1.6.6 on Solaris
> 8.  This is my first attempt at a C extension (no laughing please!). 
> I have no idea how portable it is.  Mostly what I'm looking for are
> opinions on how I've set things up, if there are any potential memory
> leaks, and whether or not I should make this a subclass of File::Stat.
>  I realize that there are plenty of missing methods.  Once everything
> else is established, the methods will come easy (since they'll just be
> struct attribute values).

I recommend you change the name to "Fs" : 

	Fs.stat("/tmp") { |fs|
	  p fs.size
	  p fs.name
	}

Statvfs is more-or-less SYSV-specific; under the BSDs it'll be 
statfs. I don't think it should be a subclass of File or File::Stat . 

This will be a nice addition when finished.

$ 0.02

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