Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:05:41 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: /dev/full not full afterall
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> I find that in latest 2.04 alpha1, writing to /dev/full doesn't fail with ENOSPC
> as the info-page says. Example program:

I'm inclined to think that the stdio buffering is getting in the way.
Have you tried unbuffered?  Have you checked the return value of the
fclose() call (that's when the data is written out)?