Re: [PATCH 2/2] close_lock_file(): new function in the lockfile API

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> +
>> +void close_lock_file(struct lock_file *lk)
>> +{
>> +	close(lk->fd);
>> +	lk->fd = -1;
>> +}
>
> Since one of the main purposes of closing would be the error testing of 
> writes that haven't made it out yet on filesystems like NFS that do 
> open-close cache serialization, I'd suggest doing this as
>
> 	int close_lock_file(struct lock_file *lk)
> 	{
> 		int fd = lk->fd;
> 		lk->df = -1;
> 		return close(fd);
> 	} 
>
> to give the return code.

Yup!  You are as always right.
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