diff --git a/CppCoreGuidelines.md b/CppCoreGuidelines.md index 25e8a3d..3b9ad63 100644 --- a/CppCoreGuidelines.md +++ b/CppCoreGuidelines.md @@ -4998,7 +4998,7 @@ Many have tried to devise a fool-proof scheme for dealing with failure in destru None have succeeded to come up with a general scheme. This can be a real practical problem: For example, what about a socket that won't close? The writer of a destructor does not know why the destructor is called and cannot "refuse to act" by throwing an exception. -See [discussion](#Sd-dtor). +See [discussion](#Sd-never-fail). To make the problem worse, many "close/release" operations are not retryable. If at all possible, consider failure to close/cleanup a fundamental design error and terminate.