On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> wrote: > John Mendenhall <j...@surfutopia.net> writes: > >> oldest spamdb grey entry date timestamp: >> sort: fwrite: Broken pipe > > Just to eliminate the obvious - how much disk space is available for > temporary files? Could you be on the low side?
You won't get EPIPE for no disk space. You'll get "no space left on device". (ENOSPC). But Unix doesn't write pipes to disk. That's an MS-DOS trick ;-) Unix does pipes in the kernel. Dave
