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Bug#774315: RFP: haskell-disk-free-space -- Retrieve information about disk space usage.



On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:32:00PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : haskell-disk-free-space
> * URL             : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/disk-free-space
> * License         : BSD3
> 
> git-annex currently contains its own implementation of a portable disk
> free space and size checking library. In a future version, I'd like to
> drop this code, and instead use the new disk-free-space from hackage.
> It will work on at least Linux, OSX, and Windows. Probably on the BSDs,
> but I have not checked.
> 
> So, it would be nice to get this into Debian before-hand.

There's another package (statvfs) on hackage that does something
similar, although it's not portable.

To my surprise, both of these import statvfs as unsafe, which (for a
C function that results in a syscall is surprising), so I filled
https://github.com/redneb/disk-free-space/issues/1.

Curious: if your code is already portable, why not split that out if it
already works in the real world?

thanks!
iustin

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