diff --git a/make/modules/java.desktop/lib/AwtLibraries.gmk b/make/modules/java.desktop/lib/AwtLibraries.gmk
index 5414c93c908..463e09e12dc 100644
--- a/make/modules/java.desktop/lib/AwtLibraries.gmk
+++ b/make/modules/java.desktop/lib/AwtLibraries.gmk
@@ -278,7 +278,6 @@ ifeq ($(call isTargetOs, windows macosx)+$(ENABLE_HEADLESS_ONLY), false+false)
       DISABLED_WARNINGS_gcc_X11TextRenderer_md.c := unused-but-set-variable, \
       DISABLED_WARNINGS_gcc_XlibWrapper.c := type-limits pointer-to-int-cast, \
       DISABLED_WARNINGS_gcc_XRBackendNative.c := maybe-uninitialized, \
-      DISABLED_WARNINGS_gcc_XToolkit.c := unused-result, \
       DISABLED_WARNINGS_gcc_XWindow.c := unused-function, \
       DISABLED_WARNINGS_clang_awt_Taskbar.c := parentheses, \
       DISABLED_WARNINGS_clang_gtk3_interface.c := unused-function parentheses, \
diff --git a/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/xawt/XToolkit.c b/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/xawt/XToolkit.c
index abe3a1c54ce..d5f3130386d 100644
--- a/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/xawt/XToolkit.c
+++ b/src/java.desktop/unix/native/libawt_xawt/xawt/XToolkit.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2002, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2002, 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -692,7 +692,9 @@ void awt_output_flush() {
 static void wakeUp() {
     static char wakeUp_char = 'p';
     if (!isMainThread() && awt_pipe_inited) {
-        write ( AWT_WRITEPIPE, &wakeUp_char, 1 );
+        if (write(AWT_WRITEPIPE, &wakeUp_char, 1) < 0) {
+            DTRACE_PRINTLN("wakeUp(): write to AWT pipe failed");
+        }
     }
 }