Timo Juhani Lindfors writes ("Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging
software"):
> That does not seem to be so easy:
> http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/jim-meyering-goodbye-world.pdf
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=28251
bug in libc which libc maintainers don't want to fix even though
there's a tested patch
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=28250
effects on perl, which maintainers think is bug in libc
Result: DATA LOSS BUG, still present THIRTEEN YEARS LATER:
mariner:~/junk> echo hi >t
mariner:~/junk> perl -pe '1;' <t >/dev/full
mariner:~/junk> echo $?
0
Ian.
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