On 11/26/2013 10:53 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Are you using "ignore_value" because of the gcc bug that ignores the official > method to tell that the return code is ignored intentionally: > > (void) write(fd, buf, len);
Right: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/ignore-value.h;hb=HEAD I thought it marginally cleaner to use that, than to have a goto to just _exit() on write error. thanks, Pádraig.