On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 10:26:41PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> This bit of Perl_sv_clear is generating a compiler warning now:
>
> case SVt_PVIO:
> if (IoIFP(sv) &&
> IoIFP(sv) != PerlIO_stdin() &&
> IoIFP(sv) != PerlIO_stdout() &&
> IoIFP(sv) != PerlIO_stderr())
> {
> io_close((IO*)sv, FALSE);
> }
>
>
> Should we really be ignoring close failure here? Would it be better to
> issue a lexical warning? If so, what category? And what text?
I think people doing an implicit close don't care whether it succeeds,
so the return status should just be quietly ignored.
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