Hi Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:53:39PM CEST:
> On 27 Jun 2010, at 17:23, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > The warning is almost never the last line I'd see, because for me,
> > configure gets triggered by 'make' which then happily proceeds to do
> > nasty things.  No, if the disk is full, I really want a hard error.
> 
> If your disk is full, everything else will start failing at any second,

Not necessarily.  I've had intermittent full disk before, for a very
short time, due to unrelated stuff happening on the system.

> > We've made Autoconf config.status quite strict by now in presence of
> > write errors.  I think having reliable code is good.  Would you
> > disagree?
> 
> I'm really not arguing with you.  While I still have a slight preference
> for the way I did it, if you'd rather change it that's perfectly fine
> with me too, and will take you less time than explaining why you disagree
> with me...

I'll add it to my list of things to fix then.

Cheers,
Ralf

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