> > How about "discard resources", or something more nebulous. Especially > > if it frightens signal handler authors. > > I understand what you are getting at but that seems so vague as to > be unhelpful.
Precisely how is it vague? The manual is telling people to follow an open/close idiom, only in certain circumstances. But in our cases, it doesn't close any fd. Or discard any resources. It kind of does nothing. What we want to do is leave enough text that people will follow the model. And warn them. But not be more precise than that.
