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| -rw-r--r-- | CODING_STYLE | 17 |
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diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE index 98d99dcdaa..cf86de5f62 100644 --- a/CODING_STYLE +++ b/CODING_STYLE @@ -321,3 +321,20 @@ parse values the same way on all architectures and cannot expose off_t values over D-Bus. To avoid any confusion regarding conversion and ABIs, always use simply uint64_t directly. + +- Commit message subject lines should be prefixed with an appropriate + component name of some kind. For example "journal: ", "nspawn: " and + so on. + +- Do not use "Signed-Off-By:" in your commit messages. That's a kernel + thing we don't do in the systemd project. + +- Avoid leaving long-running child processes around, i.e. fork()s that + are not followed quickly by an execv() in the child. Resource + management is unclear in this case, and memory CoW will result in + penalties in the parent much much later on. + +- Don't block execution for arbitrary amounts of time using usleep() + or a similar call, unless you really know what you do. Just "giving + something some time", or so is a lazy excuse. Always wait for the + proper event, instead of doing time-based poll loops. |