Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 22:22:48 +0100 From: David Laight <da...@l8s.co.uk>
Not according to 'man 2 close'. That only allows EBADF and EINTR (presumably for blocking close on character devices, sockets and? pipes). Most programs wouldn't want an fd left open just because a file was NFS and a write generated by close failed. No matter what close(2) returns, it guarantees that if the specified file descriptor was open, then it is closed. EBADF means that file descriptor wasn't open to begin with. Any other error is just a hint about what else is going on in the world.
