diff --git a/src/slurmd/slurmd/req.c b/src/slurmd/slurmd/req.c
index 656cdb5d0df8e1ace832b8b733089fc1234d1b05..2a3024d0b3cace31725796abd65e9fb3c456f23f 100644
--- a/src/slurmd/slurmd/req.c
+++ b/src/slurmd/slurmd/req.c
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ _forkexec_slurmstepd(uint16_t type, void *req,
 		 * is an arbitrary number based off test7.9.
 		 */
 		for (i=3; i<256; i++) {
-			fcntl(i, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
+			(void) fcntl(i, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC);
 		}
 
 		/*