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-- 8ch indent, no tabs
-
-- structs in MixedCase, variables, functions in lower_case
-
-- the destructors always unregister the object from the next bigger
- object, not the other way around
-
-- to minimize strict aliasing violations we prefer unions over casting
-
-- for robustness reasons destructors should be able to destruct
- half-initialized objects, too
-
-- 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 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