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[Brian Cuthie]

In article <8525 at alice.UUCP> debra at alice.UUCP () writes:
>In article <121 at cbw1.UUCP> brian at cbw1.UMD.EDU (Brian Cuthie) writes:
>>...
>>I don't know why, but the ld(er) is not very good about error messages when
>>it runs out of disk space.  This is *so* like many unix utilities.  I like
>>unix and have been using it for a *long* time, but I can't help but wonder
>>what universe some of the people who write these utilities live in.   I mean
>>would it be so difficult to say "ld: out of /tmp space ?"
>>...
>What's wrong with the message the kernel should display on the console:
>/tmp: file system full
>and which it repeats for every attempted write?
>

Well, actually, it doesn't do that for microport Sys V/386.  Plus, I'm not
sure that it's reasonable for user A to have to wonder what's wrong with his
program when the messages are bombarding user B.  Seems kind of stupid to
me.

I will stick with my original statement:

	ALL PROGRAMS SHOULD SAY *IN CLEAR ENGLISH* WHY THEY DIED !

I mean, GEEZ, what is it that makes people want to keep unix messages
cryptic.  Could it be job security ??  I sure don't know.

-brian


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Brian D. Cuthie                                 uunet!umbc3!cbw1!brian
Columbia, MD                                    brian at umbc3.umd.edu