Catching full disk space error

[Axel Siebenwirth]

Hi Benjamin!

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Reschke Benjamin-A16256 wrote:

> I want to be able to catch a 'disk space full' error. Is there either an exception or signal I can catch or a way of working out how much disk space is available on a disk.
> 
> I am using both GCC 2.95.3 and 3.2, on Solaris 8, HP-UX 11 and Linux machines. So if possible I would like a solution which is portalable across all these.

glibc library functions return a ENOSPC error when trying to write to a full
disk.
(http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html#Error%20Reporting)

Axel

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