When error occurs, return value from ioctl(2) is -1 and error code can be got thread local variable, errno. It's OK just to check the return value without any assignment. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- src/pcm/pcm_hw.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/pcm/pcm_hw.c b/src/pcm/pcm_hw.c index f0efcde3..de6fd1af 100644 --- a/src/pcm/pcm_hw.c +++ b/src/pcm/pcm_hw.c @@ -132,8 +132,7 @@ static int sync_ptr1(snd_pcm_hw_t *hw, unsigned int flags) { int err; hw->sync_ptr->flags = flags; - err = ioctl((hw)->fd, SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_SYNC_PTR, (hw)->sync_ptr); - if (err < 0) { + if (ioctl(hw->fd, SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_SYNC_PTR, hw->sync_ptr) < 0) { err = -errno; SYSMSG("SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_SYNC_PTR failed (%i)", err); return err; -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel