Re: disktotalspace()

At 01:35 16/5/2001, Jon Parise wrote:

On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 10:43:25PM +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:

Does anyone object to my adding a new function disktotalspace()? A friend of mine ran into a situation where he required an OS-independent means of determining the amount of free space on a filesystem (meaning executing and parsing 'df -k' wasn't going to cut it).

I'm pretty sure we're already incompatible with Windows 95, so I'm not sure we should go through those hoops - we can just call the function directly... Yes, but this new version will work correctly under Unix-like systems and Windows NT / 2000 systems. Executing system binaries is sloppy for things like this, anyway. Or perhaps I'm missing your point?

I think you were missing the point :) I meant that I think there's no need to load kernel32.dll and all that, we can simply call GetDiskFreeSpaceEx() directly. BTW, in light of the standard naming convention initiative, disktotalspace() is probably a bad name and should be more like disk_total_space()... Zeev