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nitpicking: a system call without side effects would be pretty useless. Alexander Viro wrote: > A lot of stuff relies on the fact that close(open(foo, O_RDONLY)) is a > no-op. Breaking that assumption is a Bad Thing(tm). That assumption is totally bogus. Even for regular files you have side effects (atime); for anything else they're unpredictable. Ciao, ET. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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