bin/130477: restore(8) doesn't recognize out of space on /tmp

John L johnl at iecc.com
Thu Jan 15 03:50:06 PST 2009


The following reply was made to PR bin/130477; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John L <johnl at iecc.com>
To: Yoshihiro Ota <ota at j.email.ne.jp>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/130477: restore(8) doesn't recognize out of space on /tmp
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:21:58 +0000 (GMT)

 You're right, I agree that the current code appears to catch all of the 
 write failures.
 
 > It was fixed after 7.0-RELEASE.
 >
 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/restore/dirs.c?r1=1.34#rev1.34
 >
 > /tmp: write failed, filesystem is full
 > restore: /tmp/rstdir1232008271: cannot write directory database: No space left on device
 > Try making space in /tmp, or set environment variable TMPDIR
 > to an alternate location with more disk space.
 >
 > Hiro
 >
 >
 
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