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Re: [PATCH 6/9] kernel/api: add API specification for sys_close

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2026-03-13 15:49:33
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 11:09:16AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
+ *   Calling close() on a file descriptor while another thread is using it
+ *   (e.g., in a blocking read() or write()) has implementation-defined
+ *   behavior. On Linux, the blocked operation continues on the underlying
+ *   file and may complete even after close() returns.
I'm guessing this came from the man pages?  This is Linux, so we are the
"implementation" here :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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