From ebec842773932e6f853acac70c80f84209b5f83e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:32:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] run-command: prettify -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE workaround Current gcc + glibc with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE try very aggressively to protect against a programming style which uses write(...) without checking the return value for errors. Even the usual hint of casting to (void) does not suppress the warning. Sometimes when there is an output error, especially right before exit, there really is nothing to be done. The obvious solution, adopted in v1.7.0.3~20^2 (run-command.c: fix build warnings on Ubuntu, 2010-01-30), is to save the return value to a dummy variable: ssize_t dummy; dummy = write(...); But that (1) is ugly and (2) triggers -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings with gcc-4.6 -Wall, so we are not much better off than when we started. Instead, use an "if" statement with an empty body to make the intent clear. if (write(...)) ; /* yes, yes, there was an error. */ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Improved-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- run-command.c | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c index f91e446c86..8619c769a9 100644 --- a/run-command.c +++ b/run-command.c @@ -67,21 +67,26 @@ static int child_notifier = -1; static void notify_parent(void) { - ssize_t unused; - unused = write(child_notifier, "", 1); + /* + * execvp failed. If possible, we'd like to let start_command + * know, so failures like ENOENT can be handled right away; but + * otherwise, finish_command will still report the error. + */ + if (write(child_notifier, "", 1)) + ; /* yes, dear gcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE, there was an error. */ } static NORETURN void die_child(const char *err, va_list params) { char msg[4096]; - ssize_t unused; int len = vsnprintf(msg, sizeof(msg), err, params); if (len > sizeof(msg)) len = sizeof(msg); - unused = write(child_err, "fatal: ", 7); - unused = write(child_err, msg, len); - unused = write(child_err, "\n", 1); + if (write(child_err, "fatal: ", 7) || + write(child_err, msg, len) || + write(child_err, "\n", 1)) + ; /* yes, gcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE, we know there was an error. */ exit(128); } #endif -- 2.11.4.GIT