On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Micah Cowan wrote:
Users report having this problem when they copy to (e.g.) vfat systems, but not ext3, so it seems to be FS-related. Even if it did turn out to be usage limit, I would think the problem would be the same: it's much more useful (IMO) to issue a diagnostic and attempt to proceed, than to coredump. :p
I understand the problem, but I'm challenging the assumption that the Linux kernel is doing the right thing. If there's no RLIMIT_FSIZE restriction, why should the process be sent a SIGXFSZ? (I'm neither a kernel programmer or standards guru - I'd just like to see where this is documented.)
Perhaps most POSIX systems behave this way... I'm afraid I don't have any others handy to check.
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