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-rw-r--r--Modules/_posixsubprocess.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c b/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c
index e8aedeb..709ebaa 100644
--- a/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c
+++ b/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static void child_exec(char *const exec_array[],
PyObject *preexec_fn,
PyObject *preexec_fn_args_tuple)
{
- int i, saved_errno, fd_num;
+ int i, saved_errno, fd_num, unused;
PyObject *result;
const char* err_msg = "";
/* Buffer large enough to hold a hex integer. We can't malloc. */
@@ -189,22 +189,25 @@ static void child_exec(char *const exec_array[],
error:
saved_errno = errno;
/* Report the posix error to our parent process. */
+ /* We ignore all write() return values as the total size of our writes is
+ * less than PIPEBUF and we cannot do anything about an error anyways. */
if (saved_errno) {
char *cur;
- write(errpipe_write, "OSError:", 8);
+ unused = write(errpipe_write, "OSError:", 8);
cur = hex_errno + sizeof(hex_errno);
while (saved_errno != 0 && cur > hex_errno) {
*--cur = "0123456789ABCDEF"[saved_errno % 16];
saved_errno /= 16;
}
- write(errpipe_write, cur, hex_errno + sizeof(hex_errno) - cur);
- write(errpipe_write, ":", 1);
+ unused = write(errpipe_write, cur, hex_errno + sizeof(hex_errno) - cur);
+ unused = write(errpipe_write, ":", 1);
/* We can't call strerror(saved_errno). It is not async signal safe.
* The parent process will look the error message up. */
} else {
- write(errpipe_write, "RuntimeError:0:", 15);
- write(errpipe_write, err_msg, strlen(err_msg));
+ unused = write(errpipe_write, "RuntimeError:0:", 15);
+ unused = write(errpipe_write, err_msg, strlen(err_msg));
}
+ if (unused) return; /* silly? yes! avoids gcc compiler warning. */
}