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1 /*
2  * Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project
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27  */
28 
29 #include <errno.h>
30 #include <unistd.h>
31 
32 extern "C" int ___close(int);
33 
close(int fd)34 int close(int fd) {
35   int rc = ___close(fd);
36   if (rc == -1 && errno == EINTR) {
37     // POSIX says that if close returns with EINTR, the fd must not be closed.
38     // Linus disagrees: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0509.1/0877.html
39     // The future POSIX solution is posix_close (http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=529),
40     // with the state after EINTR being undefined, and EINPROGRESS for the case where close
41     // was interrupted by a signal but the file descriptor was actually closed.
42     // My concern with that future behavior is that it breaks existing code that assumes
43     // that close only returns -1 if it failed. Unlike other system calls, I have real
44     // difficulty even imagining a caller that would need to know that close was interrupted
45     // but succeeded. So returning EINTR is wrong (because Linux always closes) and EINPROGRESS
46     // is harmful because callers need to be rewritten to understand that EINPROGRESS isn't
47     // actually a failure, but will be reported as one.
48 
49     // We don't restore errno because that would incur a cost (the TLS read) for every caller.
50     // Since callers don't know ahead of time whether close will legitimately fail, they need
51     // to have stashed the old errno value anyway if they plan on using it afterwards, so
52     // us clobbering errno here doesn't change anything in that respect.
53     return 0;
54   }
55   return rc;
56 }
57