Re: [PATCH 6/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_close

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 04:49:28PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 11:09:16AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > + *   Calling close() on a file descriptor while another thread is using it
> > + *   (e.g., in a blocking read() or write()) has implementation-defined
> > + *   behavior. On Linux, the blocked operation continues on the underlying
> > + *   file and may complete even after close() returns.
>
> I'm guessing this came from the man pages?  This is Linux, so we are the
> "implementation" here :)

Right :)

I was just trying to make it a comparison to posix. I'll clarify the docs here.

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Thanks,
Sasha