Randolf Richardson <rr@8x.ca> writes:
> "gsstark@mit.edu (Greg Stark)" stated in
> comp.databases.postgresql.hackers:
>> The traditional Unix filesystems certainly don't return errors at close.
> Why shouldn't the close() function return an error? If an invalid
> file handle was passed to it, it most certainly should indicate this
Of course. We're discussing the situation where no errors were reported
in prior syscalls --- in particular, open() succeeded.
regards, tom lane
