Re: [PATCH] chcon, chmod, chgrp, chown, du: do not ignore fts_close failure

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> The following patch will be required when coreutils
>> next updates from gnulib, with gnulib's just-added warn_unused_result
>> attribute on fts_close.
>>
>> It eliminates a slight risk that fts_close would fail and these
>> applications would ignore that failure and exit successfully.
>
> Do we want to fail silently though (however unlikely)?
> I.E. do these need: error (0, errno, _("fts_close failed"));

Good catch!  Thanks!
I actually thought about that, but was too hasty and didn't do it.
Addendum coming up.