Re: [Exim] Disc or Disk?

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Szerző: Vadim Vygonets
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Tárgy: Re: [Exim] Disc or Disk?
Quoth Martyn Johnson on Tue, Jun 17, 2003:
> > Should it be Disk or Disc?
>
> I'd say neither.
>
> All exim knows is that the quota has been exceeded on a filing system.
> It doesn't have a clue what physical medium it is stored on. It will
> be very silly when dis[ck]s become obsolete.


It's a system message, not something Philip invented:

    ethanol:/tmp> cat foo.c
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <errno.h>


    int
    main()
    {
        puts(strerror(EDQUOT));
        return 0;
    }
    ethanol:/tmp> make foo
    cc -O2     -o foo foo.c
    ethanol:/tmp> ./foo
    Disc quota exceeded
    ethanol:/tmp>


Apart from that, there exist other quotas, like printing quotas.
But this is not the most archaic terminology in UNIX, mind you.
When was the last time you've seen a TTY?

Vadik (Not a typewriter).

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