On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 05:09:47PM -0700, Andrey Smirnov wrote: > From: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx> > > Some character devices may perform meaningful operations in their > implementation of close() -- a good example would be socfpga.c which > checks if the FPGA was programmed succesfully in it's close() method > -- so ignoring return value of this call may cause false positives in > checking exit status for success. > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > lib/libfile.c | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/lib/libfile.c b/lib/libfile.c > index 8acff04..4f21e70 100644 > --- a/lib/libfile.c > +++ b/lib/libfile.c > @@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ int copy_file(const char *src, const char *dst, int verbose) > char *rw_buf = NULL; > int srcfd = 0, dstfd = 0; > int r, w; > - int ret = 1; > + int ret = 1, err1 = 0, err2 = 0; > void *buf; > int total = 0; > struct stat statbuf; > @@ -324,11 +324,11 @@ out: > > free(rw_buf); > if (srcfd > 0) > - close(srcfd); > + err1 = close(srcfd); > if (dstfd > 0) > - close(dstfd); > + err2 = close(dstfd); I agree that an error on closing the destination is an error for copy_file, but is an error on closing the source file an error for copy_file? We read everything from the source, so errors while closing the file should not be relevant. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox