Re: [PATCH] run-command.c: fix build warnings on Ubuntu

From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Jan 30, 2010, 16:43 UTC
Message-ID: <201001301743.27439.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <d2e97e801001291438k21a652cakb05ec34fc8bee227@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Wookey, 2010-01-29:

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> Building git on Ubuntu 9.10 warns that the return value of write(2)
> isn't checked.
> 
> GCC details:
> 
>   $ gcc --version
>   gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9) 4.4.1
> 
> Silence the warnings by reading (but not making use of) the return value
> of write(2).

Since a few weeks I get several warnings about fwrite(), currently 28 times this: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result

gcc (Gentoo 4.3.4 p1.0, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.4

Not sure if it should be muted, that are really many places.

Markus