Eric Blake wrote: > 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.
I don't have time to do that right now. If you feel like doing it, you're welcome to straighten it out. I've just pushed what I just posted.
