Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2001 01:52:43 +0200 | From | Edgar Toernig <> | Subject | Re: Why side-effects on open(2) are evil. (was Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH]device arguments from lookup) |
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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.
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