Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:28:23 UTC
config/index.php does not detect a full disk, as the fwrite() result is not checked.
If you have a full disk, a lot more than this will probably fail...
I agree with Brion's comment, which is one of the reasons I marked this as low priority. But: 1. this is "probably" the only direct write to the mediawiki folder/directory tree. Databases and image uploads and /tmp could well be on separate file-systems (and have related writes that could use error-checking). 2. it is better to detect and report a full/restricted file-system early and descriptively. Config is an early and descriptive process.
Probably fixed in cvs. Dieing if fwrite() return false.
The fix was first released with v1.4beta1.