Re: Possible unsafe use of strncat in sbin/sysctl/sysctl.c

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 09:58:53PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:52:11PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
>  > (void)wait!  That was a pure personal remark.  I really don't know where
>  > that (void)bla idiom comes from, and I obviously don't (void)like it.
> 
> It's an artifact of our stupid lint(1).

Not really, it is used by other analyzers to mean "yes, I know this
returns something, but I don't care". The major exception of course is
that GCC broke it for the attributed usage -- half of the pain of
dealing with modern glibc in this regard.

Joerg