When the programmer is forced to handle return codes
Posted Dec 6, 2009 11:31 UTC (Sun) by
hppnq (guest, #14462)
In reply to:
When the programmer is forced to handle return codes by nix
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On the importance of return codes
I think the point is that close() will always render the file descriptor unusable: if it
doesn't you really cannot close() it again safely, because you've bumped into a kernel bug.
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