[Haskell-cafe] listing mountpoints and getting their properties in Haskell

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Feb 27, 2010, at 11:47 , Eugene Dzhurinsky wrote:
> Is there any library capable of obtaining such information from OS  
> itself?
> Parsing output of 'df' is locale-dependent and error-prone (because  
> of locale
> settings, output settings etc).


I don't know of any Haskell bindings offhand, but getmntent() and  
friends are the standard library interface for identifying mountpoints  
and statfs()/statvfs() are the interface for getting information about  
them.  Be aware that the latter can be fairly system-dependent.

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brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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