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Re:POSIX close(2) is broken by ScottBurson on Saturday December 17, 2011 @12:14PM (#3364581)
I think it's AIX that's truly broken in this case, returning EINTR even though it did actually close the descriptor.

If every implementation returned success when it had closed the descriptor and EINTR only when it hadn't, this would be easy.

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