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SubjectRe: close return value (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks)
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:38:53PM -0700, Elladan wrote:

> The question is, does the OS standard guarantee that the fd is closed,
> even if close() returns EINTR or EIO? Just going by the normal usage of
> EINTR, one might think otherwise. It doesn't appear to be documented
> one way or another.
>
> Alan said you could just issue close again to make sure - the example
> shows that this is not the case. A second close is either required or
> forbidden in that example - and the behavior has to be well defined or
> you won't know which to do.

No, the behaviour is not well-defined at all.
The standard explicitly leaves undefined what happens when close returns
EINTR or EIO.
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