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Date:      Mon, 8 Jan 2018 23:17:46 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Eric van Gyzen <eric@vangyzen.net>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Is it considered to be ok to not check the return code of close(2) in base?
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08.01.2018 23:13, Eric van Gyzen wrote:

> Right, which is the reason such bugs are hard to diagnose.  Optionally
> killing the process on close->EBADF would help find buggy code when
> another thread did NOT re-open the file descriptor between the two close
> calls.

Wouldn't "close(f); assert(errno != EBADF);" be better?




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