Re: File size on glib

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

 Currently, I use stat. But have not tested on Windoze yet. ( Ia m just
thinking ahead for now. I will try as soon as I can.)

 As for disk space, you are right-- it is a whole new beast with quota and what
not. Not to add symlink.

 Let's see how it goes.

Thanks.

Harring.

 
--- "Peter \"Firefly\" Lund" <firefly diku dk> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Harring Figueiredo wrote:
>
> >  Is there a portable/cross-platform function on glib to find out the size
> of a
> > file/dir ?
>
> Wouldn't lseek()/fseek() be good enough for that?  One is POSIX, the other
> ANSI C89.
>
> Granted, you would have to open the file first :)
>
> stat() should handle that problem (POSIX).  Use recursion for directory
> trees.
>
> If Windows doesn't support those functions then it is even weirder than I
> thought :(
>
> >  How can I also find out the space left on a disk from both windoze and
> Un*x ?
>
> That one is much harder.  One of the problems is what you mean by "space
> left on disk" -- do you really mean space left or do you mean space left
> for the current user?  There might be a quota system in use.  Or maybe
> some percentage of a disk is set aside for the root user?  (I don't know
> whether Windows has a similar concept - it might)
>
> And what is a disk anyway, when you might have a single-rooted tree with
> various mount points (perhaps even union mounts) and symlinks between
> them?
>
> And what if the disk (or subdirectory) is compressed?  Then it depends on
> the actual data you are going to write later on.
>
> And of course the whole thing is one big race condition anyway...
>
>
> -Peter


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