X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=CODING_STYLE;h=04b4ed20e92705a855f683c9526d55aeecd8ed74;hp=9341b48d4103a19b6b75c206c58c508a60e8a5ec;hb=c93350728e822c3da7522664cf0a0e0ee10509fa;hpb=35b8ca3aaf8cb044ad76675dfcad89e000dd4a5c diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE index 9341b48d4..04b4ed20e 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. + would need to start up -- Do not access 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