Subject: bug#15970: [Bug-tar] bug#15970: Crash in gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 12:34:55 +0000

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.