Glynn, You are correct about this error message, still IMHO it's good to provide most likely failure case and a hint what to do next/how to fix it. I numerous times have stumbled on "cannot write" errors and friendly hint to run df lots of times has saved a day ;)
Maris. 2008/9/9 Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > In general, error messages should only report what is known; they > shouldn't attempt to guess as the underlying cause. > > E.g. if write() fails, then you know that write() failed. You don't > know that it was due to insufficient disk space unless errno is set to > ENOSPC. write() can also fail with EDQUOT (quota exceeded), EFBIG > (maximum size of a single file exceeded), EIO (low-level I/O error, > e.g. media fault, failed NFS server), and others. > > -- > Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
