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Re:fork() can fail by alxnlssn on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @08:12PM (#8205352)
The compile will fail if err is unused. You have to explicitly ignore it by doing like this:

pid,_ = fork()

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Re:fork() can fail by donatj on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @09:21PM (#8205515)
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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