Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:06:10PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > + /*
>> > + * We don't actually care what our cwd is; we chdir here just to
>> > + * be a friendly daemon and avoid tying up our original cwd.
>> > + * If this fails, it's OK to just continue without that benefit.
>> > + */
>> > + chdir(dir);
>>
>> I fully do agree with this comment, but my copy of gcc and system
>> headers doesn't, unfortunately.
>>
>> credential-cache--daemon.c: In function 'init_socket_directory':
>> credential-cache--daemon.c:245:7: error: ignoring return value of 'chdir', declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
>> chdir(dir);
>> ^
>> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>> make: *** [credential-cache--daemon.o] Error 1
>
> Ugh. Is:
>
> (void)chdir(dir);
>
> enough? Or do we have to do:
>
> if (chdir(dir))
> ; /* nothing */
>
> ?
>
> -Peff
I tentatively squashed this, which I think reads better.
diff --git a/credential-cache--daemon.c b/credential-cache--daemon.c
index 9a3a7a3..6b00ee0 100644
--- a/credential-cache--daemon.c
+++ b/credential-cache--daemon.c
@@ -237,12 +237,13 @@ static void init_socket_directory(const char *path)
die_errno("unable to mkdir '%s'", dir);
}
- /*
- * We don't actually care what our cwd is; we chdir here just to
- * be a friendly daemon and avoid tying up our original cwd.
- * If this fails, it's OK to just continue without that benefit.
- */
- chdir(dir);
+ if (chdir(dir))
+ /*
+ * We don't actually care what our cwd is; we chdir here just to
+ * be a friendly daemon and avoid tying up our original cwd.
+ * If this fails, it's OK to just continue without that benefit.
+ */
+ ;
free(path_copy);
}
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