Trojan Horses

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <35111 at cup.portal.com> ts at cup.portal.com (Tim W Smith) writes:
>This sounds like very bad file system design.  If you are over some quota,
>the write() that caused you to go over the quota should return an error.
>The local system should determine your quota and remaining space and
>check this on each write.

you have just required that all write() operations be performed
synchronously.  there are open flags defined to support synchronous
i/o - use them, or tell your vendor to include them in your version
of the o/s, but don't hobble applications that aren't as serious
about their output as yours.
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