Re: [Exim] Disc or Disk?

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Autor: Tony Finch
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A: brian
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Disc or Disk?
"Brian K. West" <brian@???> wrote:
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>Should it be Disk or Disc?


There isn't a clear consensus at the moment. A while back I suggested
to Philip that he change the documentation to use "disk" consistently:
it used both spellings, but "disk" is easier to grep for since it isn't
a substring of "discard" etc. It looks like the source code escaped
this fix...

fanf@???:/opt/build/tmp/exim-4.20
: 0 ; find . -type f | xargs grep '\<disc\>'
./OS/os.Configuring:stripchart of the percentage fullness of a particular disc partition, usually
./OS/os.Configuring:main binary, and for monitoring disc partition in the monitor.
./src/deliver.c:  /* Ensure the journal file is pushed out to disc. */
./src/exim.c:  fprintf(stderr, "exim: insufficient disc space\n");
./src/receive.c:the disc, as fflush() doesn't do this (or at least, it isn't documented as
./src/receive.c:file has already been unlinked, and the header file was never written to disc.
./src/smtp_in.c:    /* Check there is enough space on the disc unless configured not to.
./src/spool_out.c:/* Force the file's contents to be written to disc. Note that fflush()
./src/transports/appendfile.c:     For any other error (most commonly disc full), do the same.
./src/transports/appendfile.c:  /* For system or Exim quota excession, or disc full, set more_errno to the
./src/transports/smtp.c:    /* Ensure the journal file is pushed out to disc. */
./exim_monitor/EDITME:# The following variable may be set to the name of a disc partition. If
./doc/filter.txt:as temporary errors. The message remains on Exim's spool disc, and the
./README:any case much better to put Exim's spool directory on local disc.


Tony.
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