Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2002 18:19:32 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: close return value |
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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.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. for (;;) exit(0);
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