Joey Hess writes ("Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software"):
> Which is a pity. Has it ever been sent to glibc upstream?I didn't fancy fighting glibc upstream. However we have a new upstream since we are now using eglibc so I should perhaps actually try that. > With that said, it's not actually hard to test programs' behavior on a > full disk and make them behave well in common cases. For example, > ikiwiki never lets a full disk cause it to write truncated files, and if > a user is editing a page and tries to save with a full disk, it will show > an error and keep their changes buffered for them to resubmit. Right. In my own programs I flush or close stdout. But ultimately I think this ought to be fixed in the libc since it's the libc that's lying. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20161.14895.211459.752...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
