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Re: RFC: ldconfig speedup

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering dot net>
Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>, Michael Schroeder <mls at suse dot de>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:22:17 +0200
Subject: Re: RFC: ldconfig speedup
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Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> writes:

> You checked most other syscall return values (including the writes to "fd"),
> but don't you want to check for close failure on this just-written
> file descriptor?

This is a long standing omission in ldconfig and other places in glibc.
What kind of action would you propose here - remove the file?  If this
is desirable, let's do it in a separate patch...

Andreas
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