Finding diskspace status programatically.

Tim Oldham tjo at fulcrum.bt.co.uk
Mon Sep 11 21:32:22 AEST 1989


In article <10651 at dasys1.UUCP> jpr at dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>In article <146 at beta.nsc.com> somani at parns.nsc.com (Anil Somani) writes:
>>What is the best way to find out current available diskspace 
>>from within a program? 
>
>Have you tried the ustat() call?


AT&T UNIX System V Programmer's Reference Manual, statfs(2):

"statfs obsoletes ustat and should be used in preference to it in new
programs."

Much better all round.

	Tim.
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