On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:03:50 +0100
"Anders Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Perhaps, but is it up to a user application to prevent this? With the
> same logic, wget, firefox, tar, well any program that create files
> without knowing in advance how big they are going to be should have
> this limit. At least I have once filled up a partition once by
> accidentally untarring the linux kernel source...

Do wget, firefox and tar have a chance of sharing self-corrupted files with
other people?  No, so no one cares.  The hard limit is there to keep
knuckle-head users from getting rtorrent banned from trackers for seeding crap
data.

-- 
I don't think it's worth washing hogs over.
             -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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