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[Paul De Bra]

In article <121 at cbw1.UUCP> brian at cbw1.UMD.EDU (Brian Cuthie) writes:
>...
>I don't know why, but the ld(er) is not very good about error messages when
>it runs out of disk space.  This is *so* like many unix utilities.  I like
>unix and have been using it for a *long* time, but I can't help but wonder
>what universe some of the people who write these utilities live in.   I mean
>would it be so difficult to say "ld: out of /tmp space ?"
>...
What's wrong with the message the kernel should display on the console:
/tmp: file system full
and which it repeats for every attempted write?

I don't know about Microport but every other unix system I have worked on
will give you this message. I think it's a neat idea to put this message in
just one place (in the kernel) rather than to repeat it in every utility.

And though it used to be a problem on multiuser systems where you might
not notice the messages on the console (though the system surely came to a
crawl which everyone should notice) on these mighty PC's where one always
uses the console this should be even more acceptable than before.

Paul.
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