Re: Huge bug in mv 4.1.11 (i386)
"James Youngman" <[email protected]> Wed, 9 May 2007 13:09:54 +0100
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On 5/9/07, Ste=8Ephane Asco'et <[email protected]> wrote: > Thus, a solution MUST be found. Why not checking the > space left before starting to move something? Because a successful check before you start is not a guarantee that the process can complete successfully. In the general case, there will be other users of that {quota,filesystem}. But, IFF mv is already planning to return an nonzero exit status, and it has not deleted a source file, and mv knows that the target file is not yet complete, it should probably indeed unlink the target file. James.