On Mon, Oct  8, 2012 at 12:12:54PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > I am seeing the following warnings in git head from zic.c:
> >     zic.c:1505: warning: ignoring return value of ‘fwrite’, declared with 
> > attribute warn_unused_result
> 
> Yeah, this is probably a consequence of the _FORTIFY_SOURCE addition.
> I believe that ratchets up warning pickiness as well as other things.
> 
> I'm inclined to think we should make zic.c bail out on write errors.
> Otherwise, "make install" could fail to notice an out-of-disk-space
> situation during install.  The analogy you are drawing to ignoring
> errors while writing log messages is quite faulty.
> 
> We're overdue for another round of syncing the tz code with upstream,
> too.  Might be best to do that first, just in case Olson's crew already
> fixed this.

My warnings have disappeared now that _FORTIFY_SOURCE has been removed
on Linux.

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