There are many Makefile rules like foo: bar ./tool $< > $@
If the rule is interrupted (due to ^C or ENOSPC), foo can be 0 bytes or partially written, but won't be rebuilt until someone runs distclean or debugs it and removes the individual file, as I did for errcodes.h. It'd be better if these did ./tool $< > $@.new mv $@.new $@ -- Justin