[BUG REPORT] setup.exe hangs when disk full

[Hannu E K Nevalainen]

you wrote:

> FYI: I was installing cygwin with setup.exe to a
> machine that had 200 MB disk space. During
> installation the disk space ran out and setup.exe went
> crazy: installation progress halted, setup.exe was
> eating 99% of CPU and its memory usage was growing at
> rate of 1MB/sec!

... i.e. "too used to 'many megabytes available' error."

My experience is that this is handled really badly by many
programs. Just to mention: Windows (any version up to 2000 at least).

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems            --72-->

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