On Friday 20 April 2007 17:15, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > On 4/20/07, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Possibly for fstatfs(): fstatfs() has no way of looking up mount points > > per path name in /proc/mounts, and so it resorts to mapping from the > > numeric statfs->f_type to the filesystem name (e.g., "ext3"), looks up > > the first mount point with that name, and sets the statfs->f_flag flags > > based on that entry. This field may change from one arbitrary value to > > another. > > What are you talking about? fstatfs is a syscall, we do nothing but > copying values around at userlevel. > > statvfs on the other hand does use /proc/mounts. And it most > certainly does look at the mount point before looking at the > filesystem type. Yes, that one, sorry. The values it obtains that way are not reliable. Thanks, Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
