Problem with win32api function

Mark Hammond MarkH at ActiveState.com
Sat Apr 14 08:43:06 EDT 2001


Tim Roberts wrote:

> Mark Hammond <MarkH at ActiveState.com> wrote:


> I think he realized this.  He's talking about the fourth parameter, total

> cylinders, which is limited to 65536.  

> 

> He is also correct.  The GetDiskFreeSpace API is defective on Win9X; that's

> why GetDiskFreeSpaceEx was invented.  Here, watch this; my 5GB disk gets

> reported as 2G:


Well, that kinda sucks :)

I've added GetDiskFreeSpaceEx() to win32file (sigh - and also fixed a 
bug in pywintypes that could cause ULARGE_INTEGERS to come in as negative!)

Mark.




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