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[Bug-tar] Crash in gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling <at> fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, 15970 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-tar <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#15970: [Bug-tar] bug#15970: Crash in gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X
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.

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