Re: close return value

[Bill Davidsen]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

>  1. Make close to block indefinitely, retrying writes.

We went through this with sync() a while ago. You don't want things to
loop forever. That's what status returns are for, if the program wants to
retry it can. Consider the f/s being out of space, the write can't work,
the process can't die, the f/s can't unmount because there's i/o in
progress, the system can't shutdown cleanly.

Let the program handle the problems, and decide what to retry.

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