Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!heyman.austin.ibm.com!jerry From: jerry@heyman.austin.ibm.com (Jerry Heyman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Quotas do they exist ? Message-ID: <4337@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 26 Nov 90 19:29:27 GMT References: Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Organization: IBM AWD, Austin Lines: 32 In article carl@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Carl Lewis) writes: [... discussion of whether or not quota command exists where I asked for examples of where this was being returned ...] > >The open, openx, creat, rename, link, mkdir, symlink, mknod, mkfifo >routines all come up under an info search for quota. All the ones I've >looked at return EDQUOT on exceeding quota !!!. Since you've >confirmed our suspicions that quotas do not exist it would be >interesting to find out where the EDQUOT hangover is from :-) > Since I'm unfamiliar with the interanlas of any of the subroutines that you mention, I looked up 'mkdir' in info. While its true that EDQUOT can be an error from that call, you will see that it is returned for one of two reasons: the first would be for exceeding disk quota (which AIX v3.1 does not support); the second is if i-nodes become exhausted for a particular filesystem. The only other possible reason would be for compatability for code ported from BSD that expects that as a possible return. >Replying with a post, 'cos as lots of people have noted, the mail still bounces! > I know, and we're slowly trying to resolve that. :-) jerry -- Jerry Heyman IBM T-R: jerry@heyman.austin.ibm.com AWD Tools Development VNET : HEYMAN at AUSVMQ AWD Austin T/L : 793-3962 *** All opinions expressed are exactly that - my opinions and NOT IBM's