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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:10:38 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: close return value
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Hi,

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> The problem with errors from close() is that NOTHING SMART can be
> done by the application when it receives it. And application can:
> 
>  a) print a message "Your data are lost, have a nice day\n".
>  b) loop retrying close() until it works.
>  c) do (a) then (b).

(a) is much saner than silently loosing data.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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