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From: Benedikt Eric Heinen <beh@icemark.thenet.ch>
To: Dave Mason <dmason@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
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Subject: Re: 0 length files on full disk (I hope this isn't a stupid question)
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> It now turns out that C-X C-S doesn't even complain if the write
> fails.  auto-save also happily says that it has auto-saved, but
> there's a nice 0-byte autosave file!!!  C-X C-C asks to save dirty
> buffers, then writes 0 bytes and exits!!!  I know this used to work
> until about 19.13.

I just tried recreating the error on linux (Dave uses SUN-OS), and he's
right here. But, strangely enough, there IS a file system full error
message, but that occurs only, if I try and write a file with more than
64K on a full partition. Anything below 64K, doesn't yield any error
message - not writing anything though.


  Benedikt

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