linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Message-Id: <20090325.205745.208859329.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:57:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	kyle@...fetthome.net, jeff@...zik.org, mjg59@...f.ucam.org,
	tytso@....edu, hch@...radead.org, jack@...e.cz,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mingo@...e.hu, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	arjan@...radead.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, npiggin@...e.de,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, drees76@...il.com, jesper@...gh.cc,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:40:23 -0700 (PDT)

> For example, the latest one came from git actually checking the error code 
> from 'close()'. Tell me the last time you saw anybody do that in a real 
> program. Hint: it's just not done. EVER.

Emacs does it too, and I know that you consider GNU emacs to be the
definition of abnormal :-)

That's how we found some misbehaviors in NFS a while ago, we used to
return -EAGAIN or something like that from close() on NFS files.  This
was like 12 years ago and it gave emacs massive heartburn.
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