Henrik Grindal Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Erik, >> >> Revelation cannot handle a disk-full situation. I just lost all my >> passwords (file was 0 bytes in size). >> >> This is a disgrace for Unix, as all programs have the same problem. >> Important files are not protected against disks that are full. > > It shouldn't be that hard to protect against either. Just write to a > temporary file and rename(2) when finished (of course, provided the > close(2) and all write(2) calls succeeded.
But as you said, that breaks hard-links (who has hard-links to such files anyway?). However, what if you first write to a temporary file, then to the real file, and unlink the temp file if the close() and all write()s to the real file succeeded? -- Henrik Grindal Bakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID: 8D436E52 Fingerprint: 131D 9590 F0CF 47EF 7963 02AF 9236 D25A 8D43 6E52
