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From: rb@ist.CO.UK (News reading a/c for rb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: checking close's return value
Message-ID: <342@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Date: 23 Sep 88 12:38:00 GMT
References: <1988Sep20.230150.7574@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, UK
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From article <1988Sep20.230150.7574@utzoo.uucp>, by henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
> It's not at all inconceivable for devices that use the buffer
> cache to report an error in asynchronous I/O by returning an
> error from close().

NFS is a case in point - there all sorts of cases where
close() can fail after other operations have succeeded.