Re: [PATCH 1/4] uml: cow_user.c warning corrections

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 13:31, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 05 Juli 2011, 13:10:34 schrieb Vitaliy Ivanov:
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Am Dienstag 05 Juli 2011, 01:15:41 schrieb Vitaliy Ivanov:
>> >> From 6201d3e862fca8670b206338dc90303ea0acc77d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> >> From: Vitaliy Ivanov <vitalivanov@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:57:51 +0300
>> >> Subject: [PATCH 1/4] uml: cow_user.c warning corrections
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>> >> arch/um/drivers/cow_user.c: In function âabsolutizeâ:
>> >> arch/um/drivers/cow_user.c:189:7: warning: ignoring return value of
>> >> âchdirâ, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
>> >
>> > What compiler flags are you using?
>> > Using the default settings this warning does not show up.
>> > Most of the "ignoring return value" are totally useless.
>>
>> chdir is defined with warn_unused_result attribute and my gcc on
>> Ubuntu 11.04 issues warnings.
>> I don't use any additional flags on compiling UML.
>
> Ah, because of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, right?
> Then your patches makes sense.

I also saw it, with gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5).
I never used FORTIFY_SOURCE.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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