[Melbourne-pm] Error checks without packages

[Alfie John]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:30:02PM +0000, Tim Hogard wrote:
> That helps, but it would be best to know as soon as I open the file
> so I can put the entire output in a different file on a different
> partition.  The unix "open" system call reports "no space" only
> when the directory entry can't be extended and has nothing to do
> with how much space is left on the disk.
> 
> I could rewind but I'm opening for append since there is small
> chance two processes could write the same file at the same time.
> 
> I can't flush without loading the IO package (which I don't want
> to).
> 
> Does anyone have any other ideas?

Try syswrite().

Alfie

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