Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 01/18/2018 02:33 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Returning a value for st_blocks, that changes with the phases of the moon
> > while
> > the content of that file is not changed is another unexpected behavior.
>
> Not at all. It's completely expected nowadays, for the same reason that
> invoking statvfs twice on the same file might return different results,
> even if no application has made any change to any file. Nothing in POSIX
> says or implies that an implementation cannot spontaneously change the
> amount of available space in a file system, or that it cannot
> spontaneously change the amount of space that a file is using.
Sorry, but this is not related to our topic. If you change the filesystem, it
may result in a change of available free space.
Maybe, we should delay this discussion until you present us arguments for your
whishes.
Jörg
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