Is it considered to be ok to not check the return code of close(2) in base?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <201801010305.w0135luG084158 at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. Gri
mes" writes:

>> Quoting the FreeBSD assert man page:
>> 
>> QUOTE
>>      The assert() macro	may be removed at compile time by defining NDEBUG as a
>>      macro (e.g., by using the cc(1) option -DNDEBUG).
>> ENDQUOTE
>> 
>> This makes required-actions inside asserts dangerous,
>> at least without guarantees that NDEBUG will be
>> undefined. Trying to guarantee that NDEBUG will be
>> undefined would generally be a bad idea.

There is a trivial workaround:  Define your own assert() macro.

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