[Mono-dev] [Bug 575813] FileStream doesn't handle errors on Close (disk full, generic error, etc.)

[Alex Shulgin]

Sebastien Pouliot wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 17:07 +0200, Alex Shulgin wrote:
>> Sebastien Pouliot wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 15:07 +0200, Alex Shulgin wrote:
>>>> BTW, couldn't this type of programming errors be caught by lint-like 
>>>> tools for static code analysis?  
>>> Yes. Finding *potential* errors is easy. Automatically spotting errors
>>> that matters, like the above case, inside all the potential errors is
>>> much, much, much harder.
>> I agree, but ignored return value of close or fclose stands out as a 
>> plain error for me.  These should be easy to spot in the pile with 
>> relatively little effort.
>>
>> What I suggest, is that if this is ever going to be fixed, then all 
>> similar potentially problematic places should be also reviewed.
>>
>> [snip]
>>> You're welcome to contribute time to run static analysis tools, like
>>> Gendarme, on mono code base, spot real bugs and report them into
>>> bugzilla.
>> Sorry, I don't think I ever going to have time for this.
> 
> Congratulations, you just joined the club of "I know what's wrong but
> can't take the time to fix it". Note that your above suggestion which
> requires "relatively little effort" was emailed exclusively to members
> of the same club ;-)

Yeah, very insipring. ;)

OTOH, wasn't the "Critical" severity level designed exactly for people 
responsible for the component to postpone their current tasks and take 
some time to react on this new critical task? :)

Or is it simply going to be Unconfirmed forever?

Is there someone at Novell being paid to support Mono corlib?  I guess 
there is or should be one...

--
Alex