On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrew...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: bdrewery
> Date: Tue Mar 22 22:41:07 2016
> New Revision: 297201
> ...
> --- head/share/man/man4/filemon.4       Tue Mar 22 22:41:03 2016        
> (r297200)
> +++ head/share/man/man4/filemon.4       Tue Mar 22 22:41:07 2016        
> (r297201)
> @@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ No process having the specified process
>  The process ID specified is already being traced and was not the current
>  process.
>  .El
> +.Pp
> +The
> +.Fn close
> +system call on the filemon file descriptor may fail with the errors from
> +.Xr write 2
> +if any error is encountered while writing the log.
>  .Sh FILES
>  .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/filemon"
>  .It Pa /dev/filemon

Shouldn't this be documented in the close(2) manual page instead?  (I
believe it is generally true for many kinds of fd where errors can
occur between write and close.)  I thought close.2 would have a blurb
like this and I see it doesn't in recent CURRENT.

Best,
Conrad
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