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Never used const size replaced for _ to supress compiler warning#43

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let filename = Data(capacity: Int(PATH_MAX))
let pointer = filename.bytes.bindMemory(to: CChar.self, capacity: filename.capacity)
let size = readlink("/proc/self/fd/\(descriptor)", pointer, filename.capacity)
let _ = readlink("/proc/self/fd/\(descriptor)", pointer, filename.capacity)

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Would probably make sense to check if the operation succeeded instead of silently handling the error.

What about changing this to something like:

let size = readlink("/proc/self/fd/\(descriptor)", pointer, filename.capacity)
if size == -1 {
  fatalError("readLink failed, errno: \(errno)")
}

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That's better. But fatalError? Do you think it's OK here?

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