hostid: improve extremely unreadable parts

*: remove checks of sigaction and sigprocmask results
 in cases where they clearly can't fail:
 sigaction(known_good_sig)
 sigprocmask(known_good_how)

    text           data     bss     dec     hex filename
-    393              4       0     397     18d libc/pwd_grp/lckpwdf.o
+    382              4       0     386     182 libc/pwd_grp/lckpwdf.o
-     56              0       0      56      38 libc/signal/sigblock.o
+     44              0       0      44      2c libc/signal/sigblock.o
-    211              0       0     211      d3 libc/signal/sigset.o
+    202              0       0     202      ca libc/signal/sigset.o
-     56              0       0      56      38 libc/signal/sigsetmask.o
+     44              0       0      44      2c libc/signal/sigsetmask.o
-    309              0       0     309     135 libc/unistd/sleep.o
+    256              0       0     256     100 libc/unistd/sleep.o

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/libc/signal/sigblock.c b/libc/signal/sigblock.c
index 72b42c45e..5a16f336b 100644
--- a/libc/signal/sigblock.c
+++ b/libc/signal/sigblock.c
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ int sigblock (int mask)
   sigset_t set, oset;
 
   sigset_set_old_mask (&set, mask);
-  if (sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &set, &oset) < 0)
-    return -1;
+  sigprocmask (SIG_BLOCK, &set, &oset); /* can't fail */
   return sigset_get_old_mask (&oset);
 }
 libc_hidden_def(sigblock)