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Bug #10153

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File.open block does not throw "No space left on device (Errno::ENOSPC)" if the data fits the buffer of IO.write

Added by butching314 (Marvin Reyes) about 10 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
ruby -v:
ruby 1.9.3p484 (2013-11-22) [x86_64-linux]
[ruby-core:64463]

Description

When writing to file in disk using File.open with a block as an argument, if the diskspace is full and IO.write does not flush right away, the block just exits successfully instead of throwing Errno:ENOSPC.

Setup: Drive partition needs to be full

Eg. of a write that will succeed normally with no exception given that the drive is full (this means that the expected failure is being swallowed)

File.open('/full_drive/test.txt','wb') do |file|
  file.write("test")
end

#This will complete normally because the "test" data does not get flushed
#This will leave a 0kb file on the disk

Eg. force a flush to see the error

File.open('/full_drive/test.txt','wb') do |file|
  file.write("test")
  file.flush
end

#This will throw Errno::ENOSPC
#This will leave a 0kb file on the disk

Eg. write a large enough data that file.write will flush by itself (most likely it hits the buffer cap)

fills = '1'*1048576
File.open('/full_drive/test.txt','wb') do |file|
  file.write(fills)
end

#This will throw Errno::ENOSPC
#This will leave a 0kb file on the disk

Eg. When not using File.open block argument and closing the IO with an ensure block

begin
  io = File.open('/full_drive/test.txt', 'wb')
  io.write("test")
ensure
  io.close
end

#This will throw Errno::ENOSPC
#This will leave a 0kb file on the disk

Currently tested in RHEL5.

Notes:


Related issues 1 (0 open1 closed)

Related to Ruby master - Bug #13405: IO#close raises "stream closed"ClosedActions

Updated by znz (Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA) about 10 years ago

  • Priority changed from 5 to Normal
  • Target version changed from 2.6 to 2.2.0

I can reproduce 2.2.0dev with /dev/full.

% ruby -ve 'File.open("/dev/full", "w"){|f|f.puts "test"}'
ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-06-28 trunk 46598) [x86_64-linux]
% ruby -ve 'File.open("/dev/full", "w"){|f|f.puts "test"; f.flush}'
ruby 2.2.0dev (2014-06-28 trunk 46598) [x86_64-linux]
-e:1:in `flush': No space left on device (Errno::ENOSPC)
        from -e:1:in `block in <main>'
        from -e:1:in `open'
        from -e:1:in `<main>'
%

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Open to Assigned
  • Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

This behavior was introduced at r10623 by matz, but the commit log is only:

* io.c (io_close): always calls "close" method of the receiver.
  [ruby-core:6911] [ruby-core:8112]

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 10 years ago

  • Status changed from Assigned to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset r47288.


io.c: do not swallow exceptions at end of block

  • io.c (io_close): ignore only "closed stream" IOError and
    NoMethodError, do not swallow other exceptions at the end of
    block. [ruby-core:64463] [Bug #10153]

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 10 years ago

Seems intended to ignore IOError and NoMethodError.

Updated by nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga) about 10 years ago

  • Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN to 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: REQUIRED

Updated by butching314 (Marvin Reyes) about 10 years ago

What is the conclusion for this post?

Updated by nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga) about 10 years ago

  • Backport changed from 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: DONE

Backported into ruby_2_1 branch at r47486.

Updated by usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) about 10 years ago

  • Backport changed from 2.0.0: REQUIRED, 2.1: DONE to 2.0.0: DONE, 2.1: DONE

backported into ruby_2_0_0 at r47503.

Actions #9

Updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) over 7 years ago

  • Related to Bug #13405: IO#close raises "stream closed" added
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