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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:05:21 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: close return value
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
   Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 01:05:00 +0000 (UTC)

   In article <20020716.172026.55847426.davem@redhat.com>,
   David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
   >Better tell Linus.
   
   Oh, Linus knows.  In fact, Linus wrote some of the code in question. 

Ok, I think the issue here is different.

Several years ago we were returning -EAGAIN from close() via NFS and
that is what caused the problems.
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