Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!duff From: duff@eraserhead.steinmetz.ge.com (David A Duff) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: rmail bug with labels (full disk causes lossage) Message-ID: Date: 25 Oct 88 17:18:52 GMT References: <8810132135.AA01782@nuthatch.LCS.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com Reply-To: duff@eraserhead.steinmetz.ge.com Distribution: gnu Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development Lines: 20 In-reply-to: rig@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU's message of 13 Oct 88 21:35:21 GMT Another bug with rmail: Somehow, in version 18.50.6 running on a sun 3/75 a full disk seems to cause rmail to lose incoming mail. I looked at the code for the get-new-mail function and it looks like it does the "right thing" in terms of dealing with full disks, in that it tries to catch errors during the saving of the emacs buffer. My guess is that this problem may be specific to nfs, in that it seems possible that the save function can complete even though the actual writing of the file did not happen (e.g. in the case where the disk is full). Are others aware of this problem? I would guess that it must affect other things besides rmail, too. Anyone have any suggestions for fixing it? Thanks, -- Dave Duff GE Research and Development Center duff@eraserhead.steinmetz.ge.com Schenectady, New York uunet!steinmetz!eraserhead!duff 518-387-5649