From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2002-04-18T06:26:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Help wanted for statvfs extension


"Mike Hall" <mghall@enteract.com> wrote in message
news:3CBDD8A7.79725D37@enteract.com...

> Oh, well...
>
> I just uploaded my version for the Linux 'statfs' and 'getmntent' calls.
> Might be OK for BSD, also?
> It's modeled after the standard 'etc' extension.

So *now* you jump into the conversation. :-P

Guess I can stop working on this now.  Oh, well.  At least I learned
something about extending Ruby. :)

I'll take a look.  Making it BSD portable will probably be desired by some
folks out there, though it's not an issue for me personally.

Thanks.

Dan

>
>   http://www.enteract.com/~mghall/ruby/filesystem-0.1.tgz
>
>   module FileSystem
>         Filesystem.stat( directory )
>         Filesystem.mounts( optional file name )
>         Filesystem.mounts( optional file name ) { |mt| optional block }
>         (the default 'mounts' filename is "/etc/mtab")
>
>         Struct FSstat
>         fs.path         given directory path
>         fs.bsize        optimal transfer block size
>         fs.blocks       total data blocks in file system
>         fs.bfree        free blocks in file system
>         fs.bavail       free blocks avail to non-superuser
>         fs.files        total file nodes in file system
>         fs.ffree        free file nodes in file system
>         fs.type         numeric file system type
>         fs.fsname       name of file system type
>         fs.namelen      maximum length of filenames
>
>         Struct FSmount
>         mt.fsname       file system (i.e. partition device) name
>         mt.dir          mount point directory
>         mt.type         file system type
>         mt.options      mount options
>         mt.freq         dump frequency in days
>         mt.pass         pass number of file system check
>
> (yeah, and I just found a typo in the README...)
>
> --
> Mike Hall
> http://www.enteract.com/~mghall