RE: env+nice, one bug fix, two test corrections

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Pádraig Brady wrote:

>Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> > Eric Blake wrote:
> > 
> > > +if test -w /dev/full && test -c /dev/full; then
> > 
> > just a side note:
> > /dev/full seems to be broken on some (old?) kernels:
> > 
> >   $ ls -l /dev/full
> >   crw--w--w- 1 root root 1, 7 2009-08-17 09:55 /dev/full
> >   $ uname -a
> >   Linux linx2 2.6.16.60-0.23-smp #1 SMP Thu May 15 06:38:31 UTC 2008 i686 
> > i686 i386
> >   $ echo "Hello world" > /dev/full
> 
> That's surprising. It's not as if that device has a lot to do :)
> Perhaps it's an issue with bash? Could you run:
> 
> env printf "hello\n" >/dev/full && echo "/dev/full is not full"

good shot, but it was not bash, but ksh - it seems that
ksh's echo shell buitin is buggy:

  $ ksh --version
    version         sh (AT&T Labs Research) 1993-12-28 r
  $ /bin/echo hello > /dev/full
  /bin/echo: write error: No space left on device

Bye,
Berny