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diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
index b3828dc8f..d93ccd8a9 100644
--- a/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/CODING_STYLE
@@ -13,4 +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
+  those lookups involve synchronously talking to services that we
+  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
+
+- Don't synchronously talk to any other service, due to risk of
+  deadlocks