On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:08:22AM -0800, John M McIntosh wrote:
> Ok, I've done a little bit of revision. Windows users are welcome to 
> kick the tires.
> 
> Note it still will delete directories that start with 'A' and 32 A's. 
> Yes yes I should change that, maybe the next version. Yes you need 
> 2GB or so of free disk space to run this.
> 
> Now it should run to completion on the macintosh.
> For Unix machines it should complain about files that get deleted 
> while open (testFileCreate and testFileDelete), and I *think* it 
> should complain about truncate not working correctly!
> For Windows machines I have no idea what happens.
> Note the change set is in UUENCODE format versus binhex allowing 
> windows users the ability to read it (I *think*)

Hmm... evidently the Unix VM has no signal handler for SIGXFSZ. The
VM does a nice clean exit() when you run the large file write part of
the test!

Under gdb, it looks like this:

lewis at dtlewis:/home/lewis/squeak/squeak3.2a > gdb ./squeak
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This GDB was configured as "i386-suse-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) set args -memory 30m squeak.image
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/lewis/squeak/squeak3.2a/./squeak -memory 30m squeak.image

Program received signal SIGXFSZ, File size limit exceeded.
0x401b6504 in __libc_write () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)