[issue7357] tarfile doesn't detect disk full error on extraction

Eli Venter added the comment: Yes, thanks errorlevel works as expected, and errors are correctly generated. It's quite unintuitive to ignore fatal errors by default however. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/i

[issue7357] tarfile doesn't detect disk full error on extraction

New submission from Eli Venter : tarfile doesn't seem to return any error or raise any exception when an extraction fills up the disk, making it hard to use safely. Both extractall and extract suffer from this problem. I'm using CentOS 5.2 and python 2.6.2. -- components: Li