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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-02 12:14:43 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-04-02 12:17:41 +0200
commit3dbafa39b08025350e7b17f4874a343c789ff9b3 (patch)
tree3b0462703f72a8937b2d0dc0445f37ff587ccff1 /CODING_STYLE
parentf4ac4d1a82e2c468761fffa333323841ad886221 (diff)
CODING_STYLE: clarify that exit() is never OK to call
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@@ -226,3 +226,9 @@
instead of just this:
unlink("/foo/bar/baz");
+
+- Don't invoke exit(), ever. It is not replacement for proper error
+ handling. Please escalate errors up your call chain, and use normal
+ "return" to exit from the main function of a process. If you
+ fork()ed off a child process, please use _exit() instead of exit(),
+ so that the exit handlers are not run.