Re: Clean up sha1 file writing

From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: May 24, 2006, 18:14 UTC
Message-ID: <E1Fixs4-0005pD-10@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605240820560.5623@g5.osdl.org>

> checking for partial writes

Just out of interest: is this to be safe on any OS or should this be checked always?

> +		size = write(fd, buf, len);
> +		if (!size)
> +			return error("file write: disk full");

Shouldn't write to a full disk return -1 with ENOSPC?

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