What's the practical use of the error close() returns?

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 07/29/2012 02:12 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> So if the disk hardware fails after close() returns but before the OS
> caches are flushed... 

It is not part of close(2)'s job description to protect against this
scenario. If you want to protect against this scenario, use sync(2).

Shachar

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