From 3dbafa39b08025350e7b17f4874a343c789ff9b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 12:14:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] CODING_STYLE: clarify that exit() is never OK to call

---
 CODING_STYLE | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
index b687e729f4..1748dc4bc4 100644
--- a/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/CODING_STYLE
@@ -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.