We had an application whose stdout was redirected to a log file. The file overflowed, and about the same time we had 
some application problems that may or may not have been related. The log file itself appears to be corrupted with chunks
 of other files.

What happens in this case? As far as I can tell, the output from the application continued to be piped to the log file 
without interruption when the file overflowed. ls shows the file as having a size in excess of 4.6 gb.

We plan on not allowing this to happen again, but I'd still like to know just what kind of problems this might cause.

Thanks,

Kevin