My advice would be that you should always check the return value from an open call, but that die is not always the most appropriate response to a failure.

Don't get me wrong - I'm sure that in 95% of cases (at least) is is the best action, but there are definitely times where alternative courses of action (log the error and move on, perhaps) would be more appropriate.

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