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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>