On 2012年1月21日 21:51:43 +0100 gregory.p.smith <python-checkins at python.org> wrote: > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/d01fecadf3ea > changeset: 74561:d01fecadf3ea > branch: 3.2 > parent: 74558:03e61104f7a2 > user: Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> > date: Sat Jan 21 12:31:25 2012 -0800 > summary: > Avoid the compiler warning about the unused return value. Can't that give you another warning about the ssize_t being truncated to int? How about the following instead? (void) write(...); cheers Antoine.