Re: Huge bug in mv 4.1.11 (i386)

[James Youngman]

On 5/9/07, SteŽphane Asco'et <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thus, a solution MUST be found. Why not checking the
> space left before starting to move something?

Because a successful check before you start is not a guarantee that
the process can complete successfully.   In the general case, there
will be other users of that {quota,filesystem}.

But, IFF mv is already planning to return an nonzero exit status, and
it has not deleted a source file, and mv knows that the target file is
not yet complete, it should probably indeed unlink the target file.

James.