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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:49:47 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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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, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> the close return value is useless since it isn't guaranteed to detect
> anything.

"Isn't guaranteed to detect anything" is still a lot more encouraging to 
see if it does detect anything than "Is guaranteed not to detect anything".

							Regards,
							Thunder
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