Expert: Narendra - 3/18/2004

Question
Hi, I was doing a small C progarm  on HP-UX using recursion without the terminating condition so that the stack did overflow.Ater that I am unable to even edit any program.It says that no space on device .when I tried to compile a program it says that "msgcnt 44 vxfs: mesg 001: vx_nospace - /dev/root file system full (1 block extent)"

Any solution will be appreciated.
regards
ananta

Answer
Did you do it as root user?
If not, then a reboot should be able to get back the stack allocated memory.
Even if you are a root user, just overflowing the stack will not give this type of errors!
Were you doing something in the kernel space?

Also, check if you have created a very large file and delete it if found.

-ssnkumar