Ben Hutchings, le Sun 01 Nov 2009 19:06:59 +0000, a écrit : > On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 19:53 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > On 25.10.2009 19:55, Kees Cook wrote: > [...] > > > - makes more work for dealing with warnings. > > > Rebuttal: those warnings are there for a reason -- they can > > > be real security issues, and should be fixed. > > > > there are some functions in glibc which are questionably declared with the > > "warn > > about unused result" attribute (fwrite*). This seems to force a > > programming > > style which not everybody agrees with (having to check the return value > > after > > each operation instead of checking errno later). > [...] > > In general you cannot rely on checking errno because it is not defined > whether a successful operation clears it.
But you can clear it by hand before calling them. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
