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But do you really need the open()/close() semantics for everything? What if we wanted to support a hypothetical filesystem with stateless semantics (e.g. a dist

• mbreese 7y ago
  You would probably still want a close() to release local resources. A stateless object itself might just NOP the close(), but the local handler might still need to release a reference or two. I think open/close() are probably the minimal interface.