Win98: GetDiskFreeSpace fails on shares

[Corinna Vinschen]

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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