Re: stat for FreeBSD

[Andrey Shuvikov]

I don't have much experience developing under FreeBSD but this call taken from 
the fdisk source code seems to work (see attachment also):

error = ioctl(fd, DIOCGMEDIASIZE, &size);

Thanks,
Andrey


--- On Sat, 12/13/08, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Robert Millan <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: stat for FreeBSD
> To: "The development of GRUB 2" <address@hidden>
> Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 8:12 PM
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:26:28PM -0800, Andrey Shuvikov
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I tried to compile Grub2 under FreeBSD, it compiles
> but doesn't work (grub-setup). The problem seems to be
> in the stat() call, which is used to determine disk size.
> The call returns 0 for st_size, and grub-setup complains for
> "Read out of range". Is it a known issue? Is there
> a way to use Grub2 under FreeBSD?
> 
> Do you know how to obtain the disk size on FreeBSD ?
> 
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