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Re: What to do if $TMPDIR runs full?


From: Ole Tange
Subject: Re: What to do if $TMPDIR runs full?
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 12:01:43 +0100

On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:

> Disk full is not the only situation where this could happen: If a file
> system has a file size limit this could also cause STDOUT/STDERR to be
> truncated.

Another situation: The disk is fills up, but just before Parallel is
printing some other program frees up space, so now $TMPDIR is not
full.

> Maybe it would be possible to append a byte to the tmp files before
> printing them.

In the above case the appending one byte will not detect that $TMPDIR
was full earlier and that some output may be missing.


/Ole



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