From: tim@fungible.com (Tim Freeman)
To: xavier.leroy@inria.fr
Cc: Christian.Schaller@siemens.com, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] closing file descriptors and channels
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:01:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031120180446.6092F7F9D@lobus.fungible.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031120173538.B14255@pauillac.inria.fr> (message from Xavier Leroy on Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:35:38 +0100)
From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
>The other possibility is to use close_out_noerr and close_in_noerr
>that will just ignore the errors arising from the closing of the
>underlying file descriptor. But this can be dangerous: certain
>implementations of NFS can report write errors not at the time of the
>writing, but at the time of the closing, and presumably you're
>interested in getting these errors reported.
It's also dangerous if you have multiple threads because the scenario
I mentioned at http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200311/msg00254.html is
possible.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 16:14 Christian Schaller
2003-11-20 16:35 ` Xavier Leroy
2003-11-20 17:01 ` Tim Freeman [this message]
2003-11-20 17:14 ` Nicolas George
2003-11-20 16:55 Christian Schaller
2003-11-20 16:54 ` Tim Freeman
2003-11-21 16:28 ` skaller
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