On Monday 07 January 2008, Clint Adams wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:08:24PM +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > I'm not getting that last "foo"; could there be a race somewhere, or a
> > non-standard configuration option set that's doing something odd with
> > file descriptors, or something nasty in the compilation tree?
> 
> My current understanding of the situation is as follows:
> bash, ksh, and zsh behave normally under glibc 2.3
> 
> under glibc 2.7, ksh behaves normally
> 
> bash does this
> $ echo one >/dev/full
> bash: echo: write error: No space left on device
> $ echo two
> one
> two
> 
> and zsh does this
> % echo one >/dev/full
> echo: write error: no space left on device
> one
> % echo two
> two
> 
> I can't reproduce this with a simple fprintf-ing to /dev/full.
> 
> 
> 
> 

this is being discussed right now on linux-hotplug as well; there is also Debian 
bug report on it.