One other trick or tactic is to put a file (very frequently called "DUMMY FILE", or if you're more clever, "Dummy File") that is 1 block with a single line of anything in it. Using the mixed case file name makes it a little harder to erase and it allows a successful read only access.
On 9/18/07, Rich Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > } And any way to *prevent* it from failing? (I'm not after the files I'm > after > } the disk stats I can only get when the disk is accessed.) > > Not that I know of. You just have to catch the rc=28 and handle that as > an error. -- Bruce Hayden Linux on System z Advanced Technical Support Endicott, NY
