From debf93a4d6d691d8904e7f485ac6579844abadf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:44:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] CODING_STYLE: minor updates --- CODING_STYLE | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) 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. -- 2.30.2