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alxnlssn on Aug 21, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: fork() can fail

The compile will fail if err is unused. You have to explicitly ignore it by doing like this:

pid,_ = fork()

donatj on Aug 21, 2014 [–]

And these underscores are really easy to find. Then you just do a git blame and get your shaming on at code review time.

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