14 Oct
2009
14 Oct
'09
4:53 p.m.
"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:4AD5E420.8000003@acm.org...
The POSIX spec includes:
"If the request would cause the file size to exceed the soft file size limit for the process, the request shall fail and the implementation shall generate the SIGXFSZ signal for the process."
This system was designed before return codes where known. I remember having to install/uninstall signal handlers before/after doing a write system call to a socket to prevent the system from killing my process.