Re: Swap space size in C

From: Dan Pop (Dan.Pop_at_cern.ch)
Date: 12/12/03 

Date: 12 Dec 2003 14:20:01 GMT

In <brc3oe$a89$1@news-rocq.inria.fr> Grumble <invalid@kma.eu.org> writes:

>Otto Meijer wrote:
>> for one of my projects I need to figure out the size of the
>> swap file(s) of a certain system. The problem is I need to do this
>> on a host of platforms like: HP_UX, Solaris, Linux, AIX, OSF,
>> OpenVMS and Windows.
>>
>> This seems much more difficult than I thought origionaly.
>> Some platforms don't seem to have any API to query this information.
>>
>> Any hints how to tack this would be very welcome
>
>AFAICT, your best bet is the Portable Operating System Interface for
>UNIX, aka POSIX.

Which, AFAICT, blissfully ignores the issue.

Dan 

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