From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: FD state after close(2) error?
To: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>
Cc: Tech-OpenBSD <tech@openbsd.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:59:31 -0600

> Whereas in close(2), in case of any error, the requested file is, in
> fact, closed.

It is a file descriptor, not a file.


The sentence is precise and decades old.