Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:17097 comp.bugs.4bsd:1315 comp.software-eng:1729
Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ucla-cs!twinsun!eggert
From: eggert@twinsun.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.software-eng
Subject: Can you make RCS trash master files?
Message-ID: <18@looney.twinsun.com>
Date: 30 Jun 89 00:11:02 GMT
Sender: news@twinsun.com
Reply-To: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: Twin Sun Inc.
Lines: 11

Eric Allman writes [Unix Review 7, 3 (March 1989), 72-79]

	... I have seen RCS trash master files when the disk ran out of space
	at inopportune times ...

I could not reproduce the bug using full filesystems (RCS version 4.2, SunOS
4.0.1).  RCS cleaned up badly when it ran afoul of BSD's filesize or cputime
limits, but even then it didn't trash master files.  Can anyone mail me
evidence of this bug?

-- eggert@twinsun.com	...!uunet!twinsun!eggert