[account42]

It's hardly a footgun. Close may be able to report some additional errors with getting the data on persistent storage but it won't report all of them anyway. For most applications, ignoring the return of close is perfectly fine in practice.

[cflewis]

Agreed. Just log it and move on. The code _probably_ wrote what it needed to even if it didn't close. If truly cared that you got everything out correctly, you'd need to do more work than a blind `defer Close()` anyway and you'd never have written the code like this.

[guappa]

the close() manpage says that it shouldn't be retried anyway, because one might end up closing a file that meanwhile had been opened with the same handle by a different thread.