- /* Write "simple" message to socket, without using compression
- * or even the connection write buffers. Used e.g. for error
- * messages by New_Connection(). */
- assert( Sock > NONE );
- assert( Msg != NULL );
-
- strlcpy( buf, Msg, sizeof buf - 2);
- len = strlcat( buf, "\r\n", sizeof buf);
- (void)write(Sock, buf, len);
+
+ assert(Sock > NONE);
+ assert(Msg != NULL);
+
+ strlcpy(buf, Msg, sizeof buf - 2);
+ len = strlcat(buf, "\r\n", sizeof buf);
+ if (write(Sock, buf, len) < 0) {
+ /* Because this function most probably got called to log
+ * an error message, any write error is ignored here to
+ * avoid an endless loop. But casting the result of write()
+ * to "void" doesn't satisfy the GNU C code attribute
+ * "warn_unused_result" which is used by some versions of
+ * glibc (e.g. 2.11.1), therefore this silly error
+ * "handling" code here :-( */
+ return;
+ }