Pádraig Brady wrote:
>Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> > Eric Blake wrote:
> >
> > > +if test -w /dev/full && test -c /dev/full; then
> >
> > just a side note:
> > /dev/full seems to be broken on some (old?) kernels:
> >
> > $ ls -l /dev/full
> > crw--w--w- 1 root root 1, 7 2009-08-17 09:55 /dev/full
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux linx2 2.6.16.60-0.23-smp #1 SMP Thu May 15 06:38:31 UTC 2008 i686
> > i686 i386
> > $ echo "Hello world" > /dev/full
>
> That's surprising. It's not as if that device has a lot to do :)
> Perhaps it's an issue with bash? Could you run:
>
> env printf "hello\n" >/dev/full && echo "/dev/full is not full"
good shot, but it was not bash, but ksh - it seems that
ksh's echo shell buitin is buggy:
$ ksh --version
version sh (AT&T Labs Research) 1993-12-28 r
$ /bin/echo hello > /dev/full
/bin/echo: write error: No space left on device
Bye,
Berny
