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 <5AD2D86A-2515-4D4D-91B2-1919531F7CC3 at dsl-only.net>, Mark Millard wr
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>asserts that call abort are difficult to
>guarantee specific program-exit behavior
>for, based on just the standards anyway.

One should read "assert" in a source code as a curse along the lines of
"Strike me by lightning if this is not true!"

If you want more gentle behaviour you should implement proper errorhandling.

But for all the places where you think "Nahh ... that's never going to
happen", you should document your decision with assert().

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