Re: close return value

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
>
>    Oh, Linus knows.  In fact, Linus wrote some of the code in question.
>
> Ok, I think the issue here is different.
>
> Several years ago we were returning -EAGAIN from close() via NFS and
> that is what caused the problems.

Oh.

Yes, EAGAIN doesn't really work as a close return value, simply because
_nobody_ expects that (and leaving the file descriptor open after a
close() is definitely unexpected, ie people can very validly complain
about buggy behaviour).

		Linus