Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:57:45 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 | From | David Miller <> |
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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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