Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH 2/3] silence unused shush warning

[Eitan Adler]

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sunday 06 November 2011 18:06:22 Eitan Adler wrote:
>> +       (void) chmod(retval, die_stat->st_mode);
>> +       (void) chown(retval, die_stat->st_uid, die_stat->st_gid);
> this doesn't actually work though.

In the slightly older version of gcc I had installed it didn't throw
this warning.

> nano.c: In function ‘die_save_file’:
> nano.c:713:2: warning: ignoring return value of ‘chown’, declared with
> attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]

Testing with ToT gcc I see this warning. I consider it a compiler bug,
but perhaps it is best to suppress the warning using your patch.


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Eitan Adler