On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:40 AM, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > + if (printf("cmd_%s := %s\n\n", target, cmdline) < 10) { Rather than scatter fragile magic numbers, like 10, throughout the code, if you're hell-bent on checking for printf errors you could write a little wrapper function that hid the magic number and bundled up the errno stuff. But what would you expect printf error checking to tell a user? Perhaps that he or she ran out of disk space, but that's going to be painfully obvious anyway in almost every case. -- Jim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html