>>> You could define an xprintf() macro that checks if the return value >>> is < 0 and simply calls perror() and exit(1) in such case. >> Does such a macro belong to any general header file from the Linux >> software library? > No. Would you like to add it? How do you think about to reuse it in more source files? Regards, Markus -- 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