X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=CODING_STYLE;h=d93ccd8a9813a5d4c595403e53b3b767b04526eb;hp=93f54f6edca9f66d675dd5f1a7e23804409bd185;hb=d2dd0265b5140ce849cfc3821ad595df2d4c9eb7;hpb=debf93a4d6d691d8904e7f485ac6579844abadf4 diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE index 93f54f6ed..d93ccd8a9 100644 --- a/CODING_STYLE +++ b/CODING_STYLE @@ -13,15 +13,15 @@ - error codes are returned as negative Exxx. i.e. return -EINVAL. There are some exceptions: for constructors its is OK to return NULL on - OOM. For lookup functions NULL is fine too for "not found". + OOM. For lookup functions NULL is fine too for "not found" - Do not issue NSS requests (that includes user name and host name lookups) from the main daemon as this might trigger deadlocks when - we those lookups involve synchronously talking to services that we - would need to start up. + those lookups involve synchronously talking to services that we + would need to start up -- Do not acccess any directories outside of /etc/, /dev, /lib from the - init daemon to avoid deadlocks with the automounter. +- Do not access any directories outside of /etc, /dev, /lib from the + init daemon to avoid deadlocks with the automounter - Don't synchronously talk to any other service, due to risk of - deadlocks. + deadlocks