From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754414AbZCZD6O (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:58:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753476AbZCZD56 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:57:58 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:59720 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750808AbZCZD55 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:57:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090325.205745.208859329.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: kyle@moffetthome.net, jeff@garzik.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, tytso@mit.edu, hch@infradead.org, jack@suse.cz, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, arjan@infradead.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, npiggin@suse.de, jens.axboe@oracle.com, drees76@gmail.com, jesper@krogh.cc, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <49CAEDA7.1080902@garzik.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds 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.