Re: want opinions on possible glitch in 2.4 network error reporting

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 7 Feb 2002 00:24:10 +0000 (GMT)

> Hackers code sendto as:
> sendto(s,...);
> Professional programmers use:
> (void)sendto(s,...);

Remind me never to hire one of your professional programmers

> checking the return value is useless.

Not so. For a large number of situations its extremely informative.
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