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    DateSun, 20 May 2001 01:52:43 +0200
    FromEdgar Toernig <>
    SubjectRe: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup)
    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.
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