From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:44:51 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: CODING_STYLE: minor updates
X-Git-Tag: v1~685
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=debf93a4d6d691d8904e7f485ac6579844abadf4

CODING_STYLE: minor updates
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diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
index b3828dc8f..93f54f6ed 100644
--- a/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/CODING_STYLE
@@ -14,3 +14,14 @@
 - 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".
+
+- 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.
+
+- Do not acccess 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.