Re: close return value

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 00:52, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Alan Cox <[e-mail]>
>    Date: 17 Jul 2002 02:03:02 +0100
>    
>    close() checking is not about physical disk guarantees. It's about more
>    basic "I/O completed". In some future Linux only close() might tell you
>    about some kinds of I/O error. The fact it doesn't do it now is no
>    excuse for sloppy programming
> 
> Practice dictates that if you make close() return error values
> your whole system will blow up.  Try it out for yourself.
> I can tell you of at least 1 app that is going to explode :-)
> 
> I believe Linus mentioned way back when that this is a "shall not"
> when we had similar problems with NFS returning errors from close().

Our NFS can return errors from close(). So I'd get fixing the
applications.