Don't defer Close() on writable filesUpdate: Another approach suggested by the inimitable Ben Johnson has been added to the end of the post. Update 2: Discussion about fsync() added to the end of the post. It’s an idiom that quickly becomes rote to Go programmers: whenever you conjure up a value that implements the io.Closer interface, after checking for errors you immediately defer its Close() method. You see this most often when ma
