On 27.03.2018 17:29, Jason Bacon wrote: > > While upgrading ncbi-blast+, I looked deeper into a workaround for a > statfs() issue. The blast configure script incorrectly determines that > statfs() is supported on NetBSD, when in reality is was deprecated and > removed from the API a long time ago, superseded by statvfs(). > > However, the statfs() function is still in libc and this is all the > configure script checks for. > > Is statfs() still needed internally, or should it be removed from libc > at this point? > statfs() is supported internally as a compat symbol and shall not be used by a newly compiled code. Every user is mandated to migrate to statvfs(). With a libc major bump, statfs() will likely disappear, although we will keep maintaining it in the kernel compat layer.
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