On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:04:50PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:46:06AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> > Some system such as ubuntu karmic define write using
> > warn_unused_result attribute, which cause a warning when return value
> > of write is not used. As grub compile with -Werror, this turn into
> > error, to work around it, use something like this:
> > 
> >  ssize_t tmp = write(bcat, buf, 2048);
> >  (void) tmp;
> 
> Isn't "(void) write (bcat, buf, 2048)" enough?

You'd think so, but sadly that doesn't affect gcc warn_unused_result.
Usually I do something like 'if (write (...) < 0) /* ignore error */;'.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]


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