Azat Khuzhin wrote:
+ fd = mkstemp (file); + + if (errno != ENOSPC || temp_dir_index == start_dir_index)
This assumes that when mkstemp succeeds then errno != ENOSPC, which is not necessarily true.
More generally, it appears that with the patch 'sort' checks whether one can create a file, but 'sort' will still respond poorly if a write to a temp file fails due to filesystem space exhaustion.
