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RE: Re: [PATCH] Fix a bunch of Coverity-reported defects

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From: zeurkous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Re: [PATCH] Fix a bunch of Coverity-reported defects
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:42:04 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 07:25:27 -0700, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Many others were about not checking error status of system calls when
> in practice there's no sensible recovery mode, e.g., what would we do
> instead if setting the close-on-exec flag on an fd does not work?

Fail hard; at the very least, it should be warn(3)'d about.
        --zeurkous.

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References:
- [PATCH] Fix a bunch of Coverity-reported defects
  - From: Bart Schaefer
- Re: [PATCH] Fix a bunch of Coverity-reported defects
  - From: Mikael Magnusson
- Re: [PATCH] Fix a bunch of Coverity-reported defects
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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