Re: edquota(8) feature (fwd)

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Ulf" == Ulf Fredriksson <turbo@tripnet.se> writes:

    Ulf> Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de> writes:
    >> Some versions of edquota will only work when the quota is on at
    >> the moment, and use quotactl(2). Others first try to use
    >> quotactl(), and, if that fails, assume the quota is off (some
    >> are wise enough to check errno though), and write to the file
    >> directly. (Of those, many don't care to check return value from
    >> lseek(), which brings a reliability problem, but I won't go
    >> into that now.)

    Ulf> Anyone know how to use 'quotactl()' from perl?

require('syscall.ph');
syscall('quotactl', 'some argument', 'some other argument');

:)

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