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

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 09:58:53PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > Some folks seems to (void)love it.
> 
> Not that I know of...

Me.

Unlike others, I see the main benefit being related to human readers instead
of static analyzers. A hint that the return value is ignored on purpose,
which is often valuable, given that generally in C and/or system programming
the de facto rule is to always evaluate the return value.

- Jukka.