Should pointers to “raw” resources be zeroed in destructors?

No. It is useful if you have a Close() function or the like.

If a destructor is called more than once, you already have undefined behavior. This will also not affect clients that may have a pointer to the resource themselves, so this is not preventing a double delete. A unique_ptr or scoped_ptr seem to be better solutions to me.

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