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Message-ID: <AF96C6E1-E750-4E1A-BE5B-0987460C6296@trust-in-soft.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:29:12 +0000
From: Pascal Cuoq <cuoq@...st-in-soft.com>
To: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
CC: Matthias Goergens <matthias.goergens@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mntent: deal with escaped whitespace in mtab and
 fstab



>> sorry missed the < 0.
> 
> I made that exact same error when first reading the code.  I wonder whether we
> should put the zero in front, to make it clearer to readers? Like `0 >
> fprintf(...`

As someone who reviews tons of C code from different authors and application domains, I expect the result of fprintf to be assigned to a variable and that variable to be used in the return statement. Anything else will give me pause or be confused for something that works when it doesn't.

Pascal

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