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

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

At 8:22 Uhr +0200 24.8.2011, Marc Balmer wrote:
>> Both cases mean I don't use the return value. But in one case, this is
>> ok, while in the other, it's a bug. Do your compiler know something I
>> don't?
>
>I think this is not a valid reasoning:  What if I, to silence a tool,
>choose to blindly insert (void), instead of checking the return value?
>
>I can always create bugs, and spilling (void) all over only helps maybe
>a tiniy fraction of them.

Agreed. (void)foo() seems the moral equivalent of suse's "alias rm '/bin/rm
-i'" to me.

Its main effect is to lower the code's s/n ratio.

        hauke

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