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portability documentation #3

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joeyh opened this issue Oct 19, 2015 · 1 comment
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portability documentation #3

joeyh opened this issue Oct 19, 2015 · 1 comment

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joeyh commented Oct 19, 2015

It would be good to mention just which OS's this is known to work on. The need for 64 bit values for modern disk sizes may be a complication for some OS's too, so it's probably worth a mention.

I've been maintaining similar portable code in git-annex, so I compared the two.

The OS's I'm confident disk-free-space works on, after testing: Linux, OSX, Windows, Debian kFreeBSD. Probably regular FreeBSD, but I don't know for sure. OpenBSD: Don't know.
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redneb commented Oct 20, 2015

I remember that before I released disk-free-space, I tested it on the following platforms: Linux (i386, x86_64, arm, ppc), OS X (don't remember the version, probably ~10.7), Windows XP 32 bit, FreeBSD 9.0 (i386). statvfs is a somewhat new function, but for example FreeBSD seems to support it since 5.0 which was released on January 2003. It also appears that it is supported by netbsd and solaris.

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