Strange delay in syscall close() on a large ext3-filesystem

[evilninja]

Volker Dose schrieb:
> 
> ) = 3021
> read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
> close(3)                                = 0
> _exit(0)                                = ?

hm, when i do "strace cat <FILE>" there's a "close(1)" added:

% strace cat file.txt
[...]
) = 305
read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(3)                                = 0
close(1)                                = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?

not sure why, but strace shows always this close(1), no matter if i do
this on ext3/jfs/nfs. which kernel are you using?

> slox:~ # tune2fs -l /dev/sdb1
> tune2fs 1.28 (31-Aug-2002)

how comes e2fsprogs is *that* old on SLOX 4.1?
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