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Victor Michel 1d5e14632e os: further document limitations around naked file descriptors
NewFile requires the file descriptor to be either closed
through the returned File instance, or to stay valid at least
until the finalizer runs during garbage collection.

These requirements are easily violated when file descriptors
are closed via unix.Close, or when the *File returned by
NewFile is garbage collected while the underlying file descriptor is
still in use.

This commit adds further documentation for NewFile and Fd, making it
explicit that using naked file descriptors is subject to constraints
due to garbage collection of File objects.

Fixes #43863

Change-Id: I49ea1f0054eb2d2a72b616450c8e83476f4d07fb
GitHub-Last-Rev: 180d0130ae
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#43867
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/286032
Trust: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
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misc misc/cgo/testcarchive: remove special flags for Darwin/ARM 2020-12-30 22:39:59 +00:00
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