As soon as he said JNI he eliminated platform independence (at least in the
Java sense).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Mulder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 3:22 PM
> To: Burkhart,Kelly
> Cc: 'Dustin Lang'; Java Linux Mailing List
> Subject: RE: JNI link to disk space
>
>
> Sure, but the Java white papers keep mentioning things like
> "platform independent"... I figure they must have *some*
> reason for it...
>
> Aaron
>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Burkhart,Kelly wrote:
> > Why is it an ugly solution? Unix apps do this sort of
> thing frequently. It
> > works fine.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > I'm working on an installer that also needs to find out this
> > > information.
> > > IBM Alphaworks has an Install Toolkit for Java that includes
> > > some classes
> > > for doing this sort of thing. For UNIX/Linux they just call
> > > df and parse
> > > the output. Sure, it's an ugly solution, but if it works and
> > > saves you
> > > from writing some irritating parsing code...
>
>
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