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From: schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: GNUemacs on SUNS: full partitions and NFS timeouts
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Date: 11 Feb 88 01:40:39 GMT
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In article <3920@hall.cray.com> hrp@hall.cray.com (Hal Peterson) writes:
>We ran into this, too.  I think it's either a bug in SunOS or a problem
>in the mapping from NFS to UNIX(R) system calls.  What should happen is
>this: the write(2) call to save the buffer returns -1 with ENOSPC.  Instead,
>the write call says that everything is OK, and the fsync(2) call gives
>the ENOSPC error. 

I hope someone has written this up and sent a bug report to hotline@sun.com.

-- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu