Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:41:30 -0700 From: Conrad Meyer <cem@FreeBSD.org> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r297201 - in head: share/man/man4 sys/dev/filemon Message-ID: <CAG6CVpUxC6Nov7ocy5eEpcQFLd%2BQdXUxZWs49kTesWZo_VqncQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201603222241.u2MMf7ub090070@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201603222241.u2MMf7ub090070@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote: > Author: bdrewery > Date: Tue Mar 22 22:41:07 2016 > New Revision: 297201 > ... > --- head/share/man/man4/filemon.4 Tue Mar 22 22:41:03 2016 (r297200) > +++ head/share/man/man4/filemon.4 Tue Mar 22 22:41:07 2016 (r297201) > @@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ No process having the specified process > The process ID specified is already being traced and was not the current > process. > .El > +.Pp > +The > +.Fn close > +system call on the filemon file descriptor may fail with the errors from > +.Xr write 2 > +if any error is encountered while writing the log. > .Sh FILES > .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/filemon" > .It Pa /dev/filemon Shouldn't this be documented in the close(2) manual page instead? (I believe it is generally true for many kinds of fd where errors can occur between write and close.) I thought close.2 would have a blurb like this and I see it doesn't in recent CURRENT. Best, Conrad
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