From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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().
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