On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 04:49:28PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 11:09:16AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
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+ * 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 :)
Right :)
I was just trying to make it a comparison to posix. I'll clarify the docs here.
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Thanks,
Sasha