X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?p=elogind.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=CODING_STYLE;h=04b4ed20e92705a855f683c9526d55aeecd8ed74;hp=93f54f6edca9f66d675dd5f1a7e23804409bd185;hb=87281abdf3ed609b6416cabac00927bd0f26ccd9;hpb=debf93a4d6d691d8904e7f485ac6579844abadf4 diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE index 93f54f6ed..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 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