bug#11406: Bug? df uses f_bsize instead of f_frsize to calculate file system sizes

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> On 05/10/2012 04:04 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> But why isn't
>> it du using statvfs instead of statfs?
>
> m4/fsusage.m4 says why:
>
> Do not use statvfs on systems with GNU libc on Linux, because that function
> stats all preceding entries in /proc/mounts, and that makes df hang if even
> one of the corresponding file systems is hard-mounted, but not available.

This is no longer true if the kernel is at least 2.6.36.

Andreas.

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