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Kyle Jones writes:

>> I just had a serious problem with XEmacs. It appears that when
>> saving a file on a disk that hasn't enough space to store it,
>> XEmacs just stores what it can (yes, the file is truncated),
>> but doesn't report any error.

> This kind of problem is almost always due to NFS.  In fact, I've
> never tracked a case of it that didn't turn out to be a write
> failure on an NFS mounted filesystem.

This was a very real problem.  The error return codes on write were
being ignored and the truncation could definitely be reproduced on a
non-NFS filesystem.
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