Public bug reported:
According to GCC docs ( http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.6/gcc
/Function-Attributes.html ), "the warn_unused_result attribute causes a
warning to be emitted if a caller of the function with this attribute
does not use its return value. This is useful for functions where not
checking the result is either a security problem or always a bug".
This attribute is set for fread which is wrong because it is valid to
ignore the warning in many cases.
Because of this bug, it is not possible to make usefull usage of
_FORTIFY_SOURCE without introducing hacks to ignore the return value of
fread.
Please fix that.
** Affects: glibc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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fread declared with __wur (warn_unused_result)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367359
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