From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Jul  6 07:53:29 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: current@FreeBSD.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE53016A41C
	for <current@FreeBSD.org>; Wed,  6 Jul 2005 07:53:29 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from bp@vertex.kz)
Received: from relay.ore.kz (relay.ore.kz [212.154.154.118])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3717D43D48
	for <current@FreeBSD.org>; Wed,  6 Jul 2005 07:53:28 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from bp@vertex.kz)
Received: by relay.ore.kz (Postfix, from userid 1002)
	id 1154A393; Wed,  6 Jul 2005 13:53:24 +0600 (ALMT)
Received: from relay.vertex.kz (unknown [192.168.5.3])
	by relay.ore.kz (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id AE6FC24A; Wed,  6 Jul 2005 13:53:23 +0600 (ALMT)
Received: from lion.butya.kz (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by relay.vertex.kz (Postfix) with SMTP id D2AE55945;
	Wed,  6 Jul 2005 13:55:29 +0600 (ALMT)
Received: from relay.vertex.kz (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by localhost.vertex.kz (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8CF5944;
	Wed,  6 Jul 2005 13:55:29 +0600 (ALMT)
Received: by relay.vertex.kz (Postfix, from userid 1000)
	id A192A5943; Wed,  6 Jul 2005 13:55:29 +0600 (ALMT)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:55:29 +0600
From: Boris Popov <bp@freebsd.org>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Message-ID: <20050706075529.GF398@vertex.kz>
References: <20050706053058.GA12549@xor.obsecurity.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20050706053058.GA12549@xor.obsecurity.org>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i
Cc: current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: cat: stdout: No space left on device
X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current
	<freebsd-current.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current>,
	<mailto:freebsd-current-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:53:29 -0000

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:30:59AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> I got this rather head-scratchworthy error message from a script on a
> 6.0 machine just now:
> 
> cat: stdout: No space left on device

	I've seen that too and sometimes not in a script but at the shell
prompt.  The only cure for that were to terminate current shell.  It is
also interesting that this happens only for /bin/sh and doesn't for bash.

-- 
Boris Popov
http://rbp.euro.ru