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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by cperciva on Saturday December 17, 2011 @06:12AM (#3364019)
I believe FreeBSD will never return EINTR for close, but I wouldn't bet my life on it. I've heard rumours that Solaris can return EINTR, but likewise I make no guarantees. I have no idea what OS X does.
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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by tedunangst on Saturday December 17, 2011 @10:35AM (#3364382)
If FreeBSD is like OpenBSD, you may get EINTR on NFS, but the file is still dead.
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