diff --git a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/BLI_mmap.cc b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/BLI_mmap.cc
index d69c4637468..9fc4c747a36 100644
--- a/source/blender/blenlib/intern/BLI_mmap.cc
+++ b/source/blender/blenlib/intern/BLI_mmap.cc
@@ -275,7 +275,9 @@ static void print_error(const char *message)
 {
   char buffer[256];
   size_t length = BLI_string_join(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "BLI_mmap: ", message, "\n");
-  write(STDERR_FILENO, buffer, length);
+  if (write(STDERR_FILENO, buffer, length) < 0) {
+    /* If writing to stderr fails, there is nowhere to write an error about that. */
+  }
 }
 
 static bool try_map_zeros(BLI_mmap_file *file)