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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.29
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:40:23 -0700 (PDT)

> For example, the latest one came from git actually checking the error code
> from 'close()'. Tell me the last time you saw anybody do that in a real
> program. Hint: it's just not done. EVER.

Emacs does it too, and I know that you consider GNU emacs to be the
definition of abnormal :-)

That's how we found some misbehaviors in NFS a while ago, we used to
return -EAGAIN or something like that from close() on NFS files. This
was like 12 years ago and it gave emacs massive heartburn.


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