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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 2002 01:19:34 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/rwall rwall.c
Message-ID:  <20020308011714.D1004-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020307131936.GH36653@hellblazer.nectar.cc>

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On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:09:20AM -0500, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> > I thought the point of (void) was to quiet lint(1).
>
> I like it especially in the case, as it means ``yes, I _meant_ to ignore
> the result'' --- the author of this code is intentionally ignoring
> truncation issues.
>
> OTOH, if the author added it just to quiet lint, it is a bit misleading.

The point of it is to quiet all types of lints, including walking ones.

Bruce


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