Re: Fwd: Re: Trash system

[Roberto Alsina <ralsina conectiva com ar>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, David Faure wrote:

> In CFM there's only one trash folder per user. So if you move files to the Trash from
> another filesystem (another partition, for example), we do physically move all the file
> hierarchy. Therefore, a free space check is done before any file writing occurs. David,
> answering your remark about no portable way of checking free space: I guess there is one.
> What we do is popen("df","r") and parse the output of df command.

Well, that's portable the hard way :-) 

Each unix variant has a slightly different 'df' output (and/or arguments) 

This is a nice small niche: a "libdf" to handle this thing sure would be
useful for every file manager author.


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