STATVFS(3POSIX)

πŸ’… statvfs β€” POSIX Programmer's Manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so like. hi. you're looking at the POSIX Programmer's Manual page for statvfs, and honestly? she's a short one. a little icon, lowkey. but every crumb matters so let's go 🫢


🌸 PROLOG 🌸

so before we even get into it, real talk:

this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. the Linux implementation of this interface may differ β€” like, consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details on Linux behavior, fr fr. or the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. so yeah. vibe check your platform first πŸ’€


✨ NAME ✨

statvfs β€” get file system information πŸ¦‹

that's it. that's the whole job. she gets file system info. main character energy.


πŸŽ€ SYNOPSIS πŸŽ€

#include <sys/statvfs.h>

int statvfs(const char *restrict path, struct statvfs *restrict buf);

not me showing you the exact header and signature because you NEED them verbatim, no cap πŸ‘‘


πŸ’– DESCRIPTION πŸ’–

okay so. plot twist. this page is like... a forwarding address. it literally just says:

Refer to fstatvfs().

periodt. that's where the actual description lives. go read that one, bestie, I promise it's worth it πŸ’…


okay so legal corner, but I'm gonna keep it 100% intact because rules are rules:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .


and that's the whole page, babes 🧚 this one came to you from the IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, filed under STATVFS(3POSIX). mwah πŸ’‹ go read fstatvfs() now, I'm obsessed with you πŸ“πŸ’œ