On 05/12/2012 05:05 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 05/11/2012 06:56 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> Yes, this works: > > OK, thanks, I pushed that patch into gnulib, where > coreutils should eventually pick it up. > >> I just noticed that the "stat" command is affected by this as well: > > Ouch. Perhaps Padraig can look at that one -- this > statvfs stuff is a bit of a rat's nest, alas. > > One thought is that perhaps we should create a gnulib > module statvfs that works around the GNU/Linux bug? Then other code > could simply call statvfs without worrying about this stuff. >
I'll have a look at this sometime this evening. cheers, Pádraig.
