address@hidden: Bug report: Incorrect error message for overwriting file with not enough disk space]

[Richard Stallman]

Can anyone arrange to test this for the current version?
It is important for Emacs to work right in such situations.

Please ack if you can test it.

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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 11:48:17 -0500
From: "Alex Hemsath" <address@hidden>
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Bug report for Gnu Emacs
Version: 21.4.2
OS: Mandriva Linux 2006 Free
Filesystem: ext3

Scenario: overwriting (C-x C-w) an existing file, where the new file to be
written is larger than the available disk space on the filesystem where the
original file is kept.

Bug: after confirming that it is okay to overwrite the existing file, the
error message displayed is "file already exists".
Expected behavior: error message should read "No space left on device or
similar".

strace confirms that emacs is getting the right errno (ENOSPC) for the write
to the file handle.

Thanks,
Alex

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Bug report for Gnu Emacs<br>Version: 21.4.2<br>OS: Mandriva Linux 2006 
Free<br>Filesystem: ext3<br><br>Scenario: overwriting (C-x C-w) an existing 
file, where the new file to be written is larger than the available disk space 
on the filesystem where the original file is kept.
<br><br>Bug: after confirming that it is okay to overwrite the existing file, 
the error message displayed is &quot;file already exists&quot;.<br>Expected 
behavior: error message should read &quot;No space left on device or 
similar&quot;.
<br><br>strace confirms that emacs is getting the right errno (ENOSPC) for the 
write to the file handle.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Alex<br><br>

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