[issue7357] tarfile doesn't detect disk full error on extraction

2009-11-20 Thread Eli Venter
Eli Venter even...@jcvi.org added the comment: Yes, thanks errorlevel works as expected, and errors are correctly generated. It's quite unintuitive to ignore fatal errors by default however. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http

[issue7357] tarfile doesn't detect disk full error on extraction

2009-11-19 Thread Eli Venter
New submission from Eli Venter even...@jcvi.org: tarfile doesn't seem to return any error or raise any exception when an extraction fills up the disk, making it hard to use safely. Both extractall and extract suffer from this problem. I'm using CentOS 5.2 and python 2.6.2. -- components