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Re: Internal 'echo' command doesn't handle I/O errors on close file


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: Internal 'echo' command doesn't handle I/O errors on close file
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:13:42 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 06:50:31PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> The redirection itself won't fail, unless the device is out of inodes.

Ah... OK, I can see how that might be the case.  Or depending on the
file system implementation, it might fail if an additional block of
disk space would need to be allocated to the directory to hold the
new filename.  Which should be somewhat rare in practice.



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