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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 10:00:37 +0200
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: close return value (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks)
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On 2002-07-16T17:10:32,
   Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> said:

> Therefore, if you've checked the return value of fsync, there's no
> point in checking the subsequent close; and if you don't care to call
> fsync, the close return value is useless since it isn't guaranteed to
> detect anything.

There is _always_ a point in checking a return value of non void functions.

EOD.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br?e <lmb@suse.de>

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