Report the error if redirection of stderr to /dev/null failed. This silences a compiler warning about ignoring the return value of freopen() on Ubuntu 8.10. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin-merge-file.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-merge-file.c b/builtin-merge-file.c index 9d4e874..96edb97 100644 --- a/builtin-merge-file.c +++ b/builtin-merge-file.c @@ -51,8 +51,11 @@ int cmd_merge_file(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) argc = parse_options(argc, argv, options, merge_file_usage, 0); if (argc != 3) usage_with_options(merge_file_usage, options); - if (quiet) - freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr); + if (quiet) { + if (!freopen("/dev/null", "w", stderr)) + return error("failed to redirect stderr to /dev/null: " + "%s\n", strerror(errno)); + } for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) { if (!names[i]) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html