Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes: > > But how would you make it work *with* -f? You don't know the path of the > > file used to create stdin (and in the case of a pipe, there is no path), > > There is no need for an actual file name, since fstatfs > takes a file descriptor. Of course, there's the issue > that some systems don't have a usable fstatfs...
Or fstatvfs, if you go by POSIX. I stand corrected; it looks like we _can_ try to implement 'stat -f -', so I agree that we ought to do so for the consistency aspect. I'm okay with failing with ENOSYS or ENOTSUP on platforms that lack a working fstat[v]fs. -- Eric Blake
