Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Comments on C news
Message-ID: <1989Jun24.205240.25041@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2228@vicom.COM> <1989Jun20.211939.7835@utzoo.uucp> <2277@vicom.COM> <1989Jun22.174603.10483@utzoo.uucp> <1989Jun23.104001.284@twwells.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 20:52:40 GMT

In article <1989Jun23.104001.284@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>:                                                   I repeat, the space
>: checks are meant as disaster mitigation, not to routinely let you run
>: safely with disks on the brink of overflow.
>
>Ah, but I do!

Well, I respect your bravery, but your warranty is void due to abuse. :-)
Making everything do the right thing while observing strict space limits
is *much* harder than making it fail more-or-less gracefully when an
approximate space limit is approached.  We did the latter, not the former.
-- 
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