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-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.cc9
-rw-r--r--src/libutil/util.hh2
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.cc b/src/libutil/util.cc
index 02745498f9fc..54cfc6c7fded 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/util.cc
@@ -404,6 +404,15 @@ void printMsg_(Verbosity level, const format & f)
 }
 
 
+void warnOnce(bool & haveWarned, const format & f)
+{
+    if (!haveWarned) {
+        printMsg(lvlError, format("warning: %1%") % f.str());
+        haveWarned = true;
+    }
+}
+
+
 void readFull(int fd, unsigned char * buf, size_t count)
 {
     while (count) {
diff --git a/src/libutil/util.hh b/src/libutil/util.hh
index 22e614d9585e..125ba2695c2c 100644
--- a/src/libutil/util.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/util.hh
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ void printMsg_(Verbosity level, const format & f);
 
 #define debug(f) printMsg(lvlDebug, f)
 
+void warnOnce(bool & haveWarned, const format & f);
+
 
 /* Wrappers arount read()/write() that read/write exactly the
    requested number of bytes. */