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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:10:49 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Elladan <elladan@eskimo.com>
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Subject: Re: close return value (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks)
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Hi,

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Elladan wrote:
> > Thread 2 shouldn't be able to reuse a currently open fd. This application 
> > design is seriously broken.

Okay, again. It's about doing a second close() in case the first one fails 
with EAGAIN. If we have to do it again, the filehandle is not closed, and 
if the filehandle is not closed, the kernel knows that, and if the kernel 
knows that the filehandle is still open, it won't get reassigned. Problem 
gone.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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