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SubjectRe: close return value
Hi,

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> The problem with errors from close() is that NOTHING SMART can be
> done by the application when it receives it. And application can:
>
> a) print a message "Your data are lost, have a nice day\n".
> b) loop retrying close() until it works.
> c) do (a) then (b).

(a) is much saner than silently loosing data.

Regards,
Thunder
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