From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-02-05T15:41:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby bug?  IO.close doesn't check for error

Hi,

In message "Ruby bug?  IO.close doesn't check for error"
    on 02/02/05, Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> writes:

|It is possible for fclose() to fail (for example, when fclose() needs
|to flush buffers to disk and those writes fail due to a disk full
|condition).  I was surprised to find that fptr_finalize did not check
|for this failure.
|
|I'd suggest something like the patch below.

"fptr_finalize" may be called from GC, in which case raising error is
useless (too late).  So how do you think raising exception in explicit
"close" call?

							matz.