Jim Meyering wrote:
With classic cp, if I copy a 1GB non-sparse file and there's less space than that available, cp fails with ENOSPC. With this new feature, it succeeds even if there are just a few blocks available.
Is it good or bad?
Also, consider (buggy!) code that then depends on being able to modify that file in-place, and that "knows" it doesn't need to check for ENOSPC. Sure, they should always check for write failure, but still. It is a change.
On a multiuser system, that (buggy) tool would fail anyway if something else adds enough new data to the filesystem in the meantime.
But sure, it's a change. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
