bug#17470: [PATCH] sort: rotate on ENOSPC while creating tmp files

[Azat Khuzhin]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 01:44:14PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Azat Khuzhin wrote:
> >The current patch only look while files is created, but this is not
> >enough `I agree with you, it must check write(2) and fallback to creating
> >when write(2) will fail with ENOSPC.
> >This is what you mean?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >when we have ENOSPC it
> >means that we already won't create any more files there, and one file
> >with relatively small size is not a big deal.
> 
> OK.  The point is that 'sort' shouldn't lose the data (including the
> possibly-incomplete trailing line) that's already in the temporary file when
> a write to that file fails.

Thanks for the explanation, I see what you mean.

> 
> Also, the code could treat EIO like ENOSPC, I suppose, to be more robust in
> the presence of bad temporary devices.
> 
> But beware file systems that report ENOSPC and EIO in a delayed fashion,
> i.e., not immediately upon the failing write, but somewhat later, typically
> when closing the output file.

Yeah, that's a good catch, I will keep this in mind when I will start
working on this.

Thanks,
Azat.