From cad6982291a0e3cae4b8b1fad140ffd512e2835c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 20:00:07 +0200
Subject: CODING_STYLE: say that "for (;;)" is better than "while (1)"

---
 CODING_STYLE | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
index dbadfbdb54..a96ddd3598 100644
--- a/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/CODING_STYLE
@@ -314,3 +314,10 @@
   are always defined after more global ones. Thus, our local
   definitions will never "leak" into the global header files, possibly
   altering their effect due to #ifdeffery.
+
+- To implement an endless loop, use "for (;;)" rather than "while
+  (1)". The latter is a bit ugly anyway, since you probably really
+  meant "while (true)"... To avoid the discussion what the right
+  always-true expression for an infinite while() loop is our
+  recommendation is to simply write it without any such expression by
+  using "for (;;)".
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