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In article <4724@cbmvax.UUCP>, ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) writes:
> In article <1570@sbcs.sunysb.edu> root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes:
> >In article <358@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
> >								    I've
> >	seen plenty of programs do eg, more closes() than open()'s as part
> >	of badly written cleanup code - under systems like Unix the first
> >	close() sticks and the others just return a -1.
> 
> On Unix, you can only close a file descriptor once; after that it's
> gone and passing the same number to close() again is comparable to
> doing a CloseLibrary(0x123456L) (i.e. "closing" an address which
	
	With the crucial difference that Unix doesn't crash and then
	paste up a big advertisement stating the fact to any reviewer
	who has the machine :-).

> >							 Crashing the
> >	system (ie giving the Amiga BAD PRESS) is just bad form for
> >	announcing such a condition.
> 
> So complain to the programmer who crashed the system.  When a library

	When the machine is in eg, JP's hands we don't have this luxury.
	Guilt by association.

> 					-=] Ford [=-
> 	.		.		(In Real Life: Mike Ditto)
> .	    :	       ,		ford@kenobi.cts.com

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook