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

[Eugene Grosbein]

08.01.2018 23:13, Eric van Gyzen wrote:

> Right, which is the reason such bugs are hard to diagnose.  Optionally
> killing the process on close->EBADF would help find buggy code when
> another thread did NOT re-open the file descriptor between the two close
> calls.

Wouldn't "close(f); assert(errno != EBADF);" be better?