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From: mcdaniel@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Empty News Articles
Message-ID: <53200002@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 88 20:35:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu!mcdaniel    Nov 16 14:35:00 1988


Talk about self-referential articles!  This is what we saw at our
site.  (The lines of the form "/* ... */" are the headers from notes):

/* Written 12:08 pm Nov 10, 1988 by geb@igor.Rational.COM in uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:news.admin */
/* ---------- "Empty News Articles" ---------- */
/* End of text from uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu:news.admin */

I know that "write" often returns immediately (using write-behind), so
there's no guarantee of an error code being returned.  Isn't there
some other way for news/notes to check for a full filesystem?

-- 
Tim, the Bizarre and Oddly-Dressed Enchanter
Center for Supercomputing Research and Development

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