scons caches corrupted files if cache directory volume has no space left

[bdbaddog]

This issue was originally created at: 2010-05-06 03:52:39.
This issue was reported by: depeyrot.
depeyrot said at 2010-05-06 03:52:39

Instead of issuing an "out of space" error, scons seems to put corrupted files into the cache if the cache directory volume has not enough space left on the device.

gregnoel said at 2010-05-19 08:25:35

Bug party triage: Catch this error and raise an exception. To prevent further corruption, invalidate the cache entry and fail the related build so that it can be retried later.

garyo said at 2012-09-01 10:01:49

Bumping all old issues targeted for past releases to 2.x.

[ajf58]

I think it's beyond the scope of SCons to try and gracefully handle the user's disk space running out. I suggest closing this as "won't fix".

[mwichmann]

This is related to #2615

[bdbaddog]

Hmm. seems the inverse of #4085 ?

[mwichmann]

Kinda, yeah. The whole idea of expecting cachedir operations to work without some kind of error checking/recovery is apparently... optimistic. There's an issue in there somewhere which contains code for cache checking. #1908. Guess it wasn't super-popular.