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> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909191332050.42316-100000@semuta.feral.com>, Matthew
>  Jacob writes:
> 
> >>     and
> >> 	Since bdevs have not been returning write errors for 5+ years
> >
> >I don't believe that this is necessarily as bad as you make it out to
> >because close(2) can (and should) return any collected errors (as it
> >should also do for the close of a file in a filesystem :-)).
> 
> think linux weenie and floppy disk for a moment...

Umm, I certainly get write errors dd'ing to a floppy that has a bad spot
on a linux system (spent 40 minutes yesterday hunting through my pile of
4.0.3c SparcStation floppies until I found one still good enough to
write with RH6.0's boot floppy image...)

> 
> It certainly violates POLA.

"Point Of Least Amiability" ? 



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