For showing a message in raw format, rather than silently succeeding when a read or a write fails (or, probably, looping if a read fails), try to print an error message and exit with a non-zero status. This silences one of the buildbot warnings about unused resuls. While my libc lacks the declarations that trigger these warnings, this can be tested by adding the following to notmuch.h: __attribute__((warn_unused_result)) size_t fwrite(const void *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, FILE *stream); --- notmuch-show.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/notmuch-show.c b/notmuch-show.c index d14dac9..c674e25 100644 --- a/notmuch-show.c +++ b/notmuch-show.c @@ -883,7 +883,17 @@ do_show_single (void *ctx, while (!feof (file)) { size = fread (buf, 1, sizeof (buf), file); - (void) fwrite (buf, size, 1, stdout); + if (ferror (file)) { + fprintf (stderr, "Error: Read failed from %s\n", filename); + fclose (file); + return 1; + } + + if (fwrite (buf, size, 1, stdout) != 1) { + fprintf (stderr, "Error: Write failed\n"); + fclose (file); + return 1; + } } fclose (file); -- 1.7.7.3