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[Caml-list] GC and file descriptors
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Date: | 2003-11-15 (02:49) |
From: | Mike Furr <mike.furr@u...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] GC and file descriptors |
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 21:25, Max Kirillov wrote: > According to 'man 2 close', it cannot. Sure it can: EINTR. And to prove this can actually can happen, just ask the squid(web proxy) developers. I seem to recall hearing a talk by one of them where they mentioned the failure to check the return code of close() resulted in a out-of-fd bug which took a _long_ time to track down. -- Mike Furr <mike.furr@umbc.edu>