* Russ Allbery <[email protected]>, 2013-04-07, 12:22:
* shlib-calls-exit
- Some 2300 tags in < 1000 packages
- Russ suggested that this tag should be dropped[2].
- it is wishlist/possible (I)
It's been almost always true positive for me, so I'd prefer if we kept
it.
Are you certain? (In other words, how have you confirmed that the
library actually calls the code that calls exit?)
Yeah, I'm sure. See the two recent examples on debian-mentors. I've also
seen some libraries that called exit() when an assertion failed.
It also gives false positives on any Apache module that reports fatal
syntax errors in configuration files, since the accepted way of doing
that is to call exit.
We could whitelist /usr/lib/apache2/. Or maybe check only public
libraries.
But I don't have strong feeling about keeping the tag. If you want to
remove it, feel free to do it.
--
Jakub Wilk
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