Re: GetDiskSpaceAvailable in Linux

timeless <[email protected]>
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On Jun 1, 8:43 pm, Wan-Teh Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> nsILocalFile is an XPCOM interface.  Please ask this question
> in the xpcom newsgroup/mailing list.  You can find it by
> searching for "xpcom" in this page:http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html

he actually posted the same question about half an hour earlier in the
right forum.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.xpcom/browse_thread/thread/71aeae6ed2aaee24/50b68958f71388f1

impatient guy.

> The Unix/Linux implementation ofGetDiskSpaceAvailableis here:http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpcom/io/nsLocalFileUnix.cpp#...
>
> Since Linux has both <sys/statfs.h> and <sys/statvfs.h>, it seems
> that this method is implemented.  I suspect that the call failed.
> Check the return value of mFile->GetDiskSpaceAvailable(&iSize).
> Does it return NS_ERROR_FAILURE or NS_OK?  If it returns
> NS_ERROR_FAILURE, what's the value of 'errno'?

otoh, he managed to get approximately the same answer faster by
posting here, so it's hard for me to blame him.
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