Re: close return value (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks)

[Rogier Wolff]

Alan Cox wrote:
> > And watch it come back with an error again, repeat ad infinitum?
> 
> The use of intelligence doesn't help. Come on I know you aren't a cobol
> programmer. Check for -EBADF ...

Huh? My mgetty/sendfax setup did something interesting lately.

I had not finished installing it, and I got a fax. It recieved it into
/tmp, tried moving it to /var/spool/fax/incoming, failed, and left the
tempfile in /tmp. It then mailed me about the recieved fax in /tmp. 

This is EXACTLY the intelligent behaviour that an application writer
can chose for when checking for error codes. Especially "don't unlink
your tempfiles" is easy if you get errors on conversion or copying....

			Roger. 

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