From:	richard AT stardate DOT bc DOT ca (NOSPAM) (Richard Sanders)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: open() / write() doesn't fail on disk full?
Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 1999 06:51:24 GMT
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:27:39 +0800, robk AT cyberway DOT com DOT sg (Rob Kramer)
wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I noticed that open/write or fopen/fwrite seem to handle my disk running 
>out of space as if nothting special is going on. I would expect them to 
>bomb and set errno appropriately. Instead, I get return codes which are 
>the same as normal operation. Is this a DOS thing?

Don't kow about a DOS thing but Win95 seems to have the same problem.
Several programs I have been using and ran out of space just went on
their way blindly.  May be its an MS thing?

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