Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!eagle!icdoc!ist!rb 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 Lines: 7 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.