Avoiding overzealous warnings by performing explicit casts to const

README.md

@@ -59,14 +59,5 @@ Low priotity:
 - Determining the difference between a 'thumb drive' and external storage hard disks
 - Configuration options for ignoring external storage hard disks or 'thumb drives'
 
-## Note on building
-When building the project with the attached Makefile, a warning should show, like the following:
-
-    ../code/daemon.c: In function ‘main’:
-    ../code/daemon.c:21:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘processArguments’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
-    ../code/processArguments.h:1:6: note: expected ‘const char * const*’ but argument is of type ‘char **’
-
-This is not a problem in this case. If you want to know why, you can read about it [here, on StackOverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12992407/warning-when-passing-non-const-parameter-to-a-function-that-expects-const-parame).
-
 ## License
 This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. A version of this license should have been provided with the program. It can also be found on: [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)

code/backup.c

@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ void backDeviceUp(char* mountPoint, char* deviceId)
 	int needsWhitelisting = 0;
     if(gBlacklist[0] != NULL)
 	{
-		blacklisted = contains(gBlacklist, deviceId);
+		blacklisted = contains((const char * const *)gBlacklist, deviceId);
 	}
     if(gWhitelist[0] != NULL)
 	{
 		needsWhitelisting = 1;
-		whitelisted = contains(gWhitelist, deviceId);
+		whitelisted = contains((const char * const *)gWhitelist, deviceId);
 	}
 	if((blacklisted == 1) && (whitelisted == 1))
 	{

code/daemon.c

@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 
     /* Initialization of the daemon functionality */
 	initializeDeviceBookKeeping();
-   	processArguments(argv, argc);
+   	processArguments((const char * const *)argv, argc);
 	if(gTargetDirectory == NULL)
 	{
 		syslog(LOG_ERR, "Exiting with failure: No target directory has been specified. Specifying a target directory is mandatory.");

code/daemonWindows.c

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 
     /* Initialization of the daemon functionality */
 	initializeDeviceBookKeeping();
-   	processArguments(argv, argc);
+   	processArguments((const char * const *)argv, argc);
 	if(gTargetDirectory == NULL)
 	{
 		syslog(LOG_ERR, "Exiting with failure: No target directory has been specified. Specifying a target directory is mandatory.");