[Toybox] I aten't dead.

[James McMechan]

Is there some reason you don't want to use the  --output option? not in posix?

# df / --output=avail
   Avail
10291956



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> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 13:46:07 -0600
> From: rob at landley.net
> To: toybox at lists.landley.net
> Subject: [Toybox] I aten't dead.
>
> Sorry for the radio silence, $DAYJOB's been eating the majority of my
> programming time and what's left has gone to Aboriginal Linux recently,
> because I made a largeish design change over there (putting the base
> root filesystem in initmpfs and merging the native-compiler at runtime
> instead of compile time), and the aboriginal linux release soft-blocks
> the toybox release because I use "built aboriginal and then built linux
> from scratch under it" as my main toybox regression-smoketest.
>
> Last night's I hit a fun bug in toybox "stat" where it doesn't remotely
> work on arm. (Works fine on x86 host, but 3.18 kernel built against
> uClibc on armv5l: the -f numbers are way off, it thinks the blocksize of
> ext2fs is 32 bytes.)
>
> (I hit this because the "do I need to copy the filesystem into a chroot
> under /home before building LFS" test _used_ to be "is / read-only", and
> now it's a tmpfs with 64 megs of ram in it so it's writeable but not
> _big_ enough. And posix "df" doesn't seem to have an easily scriptable
> way to get the current size of a filesystem without having to chop it
> out with awk, which is why I'm using stat.)
>
> I wrote some of it up at http://landley.net/notes.html which I'm trying
> to keep more updated, but writing status updates _there_ means I'm
> posting less of them _here_...
>
> Sigh. I should do a "toybox weekly news" ala
> http://landley.net/qemu/2008.html (for a value of "should" that means
> $DAYJOB still comes first hours-wise.)
>
> Speaking of which, back to kernel code...
>
> Rob
>
> P.S. Dreamhost's web archive seems to have started up again, by
> discarding all the pending data and thus putting another half-month hole
> in the archives. I mentioned that on http://landley.net/toybox but
> again, didn't mention it here...
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