NO SPACE Error message

[Eddie Wyatt]

In article <995 at mcgill-vision.UUCP>, mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
 > > Last night in lab, I had about 12 users compiling small C programs
 > > [and "no space on disk 0 partition 0" messages started appearing].
 > > [/ was out of space, but some space appeared shortly thereafter.]
 > 
 > > I'm guessing that things are happening in /tmp, right?
 > 
 > Almost certainly.  Every UNIX C compiler I've seen uses /tmp to hold
 > intermediate results, and other programs do the same.  Circumstantial
 > evidence also indicates /tmp (the space hog vanished quickly, which
 > files in /tmp tend to do).

  Sun's version of cc has a switch which allows you to use pipes
instead of intermediate files - the "-pipe" option.


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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw at ius1.cs.cmu.edu