From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:14:43 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: CODING_STYLE: clarify that exit() is never OK to call
X-Git-Tag: v219.0~198
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3dbafa39b08025350e7b17f4874a343c789ff9b3;p=elogind.git

CODING_STYLE: clarify that exit() is never OK to call
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diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
index b687e729f..1748dc4bc 100644
--- a/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/CODING_STYLE
@@ -226,3 +226,9 @@
   instead of just this:
 
       unlink("/foo/bar/baz");
+
+- Don't invoke exit(), ever. It is not replacement for proper error
+  handling. Please escalate errors up your call chain, and use normal
+  "return" to exit from the main function of a process. If you
+  fork()ed off a child process, please use _exit() instead of exit(),
+  so that the exit handlers are not run.