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From: mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Don Speck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Can 'cp' kill a system if the disk is full??
Message-ID: <6270@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 26 Apr 88 09:53:02 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Summary: "filesystem full" printfs

Trying to write to a full disk may not crash Unix, but on 4.2bsd
typing ^S to the resulting "filesystem full" messages will freeze
all of the ttys (and the console) until you type the corresponding ^Q.

(Fortunately rshd doesn't use pty's).

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {amdahl,ames!elroy}!cit-vax!speck