statfs struct was changed in FreeBSD 12

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Roman reported this on 2018-05-20T15:23:54Z

Transferred from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18885

CC List

• Cy Schubert
• Jonathan M Davis

Description

core.sys.posix.sys.statvfs still has the declaration for FreeBSD 11.
That leads to segfeault when calling statfs function because of structure's size mismatch.

Should we just update statfs_t declaration for FreeBSD (and drop support for FreeBSD 11) or dispatch somehow?

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issues.dlang commented on 2018-06-01T08:27:23Z

The decision was that we will officially support only the latest release of FreeBSD - which is currently FreeBSD 11.1. And that's what the autotester tests. Having FreeBSD 12 work is obviously fine, but it's not officially supported, and it certainly won't be supported in a manner that breaks FreeBSD 11. FreeBSD 12 will only be officially supported once it's actually released, and at that point, we will drop support for FreeBSD 11.

The main issue related to this is issue #17596. There has been some discussion there on how to make FreeBSD 11 and 12 work at the same time, but someone has to actually figure it all out properly and do the work, which no one has yet done.

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cy commented on 2019-08-11T22:18:58Z

The FreeBSD port has been deleted.