Excerpts from Debian Bug Tracking System's message of Wed Jan 11 21:18:04 +0100 
2012:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the tor package:
> 
> #514616: bad pidfile handling on ENOSPC
> 
> It has been closed by Peter Palfrader <[email protected]>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
> If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a
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> 
> Lots of unix programs behave weird if they run out of disk space.  I
> don't think spending lots of time on tor to do much better than the
> rest, or waiting for that, is a good use of anybody's resource.

Well, the thing is that lots of other programs *do* better.

They write the PID file as root.

Tor is standing out as behaving exceptionally poorly here.

Regards

Michal



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