On 01/01/11 22:56, Karel Zak wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 08:59:02PM +0000, Jon Grant wrote: >> Just building latest code and saw the compiler generated some >> warnings. Just thinking, one idea is to check the return value, and > > the warn_unused_result for write() in glibc is pretty idiotic... > >> use it as best possible (even just for trace) or (void)bytes to make >> it go quiet when there really is no use. > > (void) foo() is mess and it has no effect for warn_unused_result > >> bytes = write(1, "\n", 1); > > hmm.. possible solution is to call error() (but I'm not sure if this > is appropriate solution for unimportant things like /etc/issue) or > really ignore the return value. It would be nice to have a macro that > allows to ignore the return values in some cases > > ignore_result( write(1, "\n", 1) ); We use something like that in coreutils: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/ignore-value.h;hb=HEAD cheers, Pádraig. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
