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@ -4998,7 +4998,7 @@ Many have tried to devise a fool-proof scheme for dealing with failure in destru
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None have succeeded to come up with a general scheme.
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This can be a real practical problem: For example, what about a socket that won't close?
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The writer of a destructor does not know why the destructor is called and cannot "refuse to act" by throwing an exception.
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See [discussion](#Sd-dtor).
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See [discussion](#Sd-never-fail).
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To make the problem worse, many "close/release" operations are not retryable.
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If at all possible, consider failure to close/cleanup a fundamental design error and terminate.
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