Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:20 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:21 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm not opposed to adding it, but I think we should probably start with it marked as experimental, and I'd expect a lot of false positives. Agreed, definitely an info-level complaint

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wasn't entirely sure about the Severity and Certainty, so suggestions / objections welcome. I would tend towards wishlist / possible, but since it's experimental, it doesn't matter a great deal. I'm a little hesitant to say that changing a library

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 14:03 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Adam D. Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wasn't entirely sure about the Severity and Certainty, so suggestions / objections welcome. I would tend towards wishlist / possible, but since it's experimental, it doesn't matter a great

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist rpmlint added checks for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450011 http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1448 I think this would be a useful addition to lintian. -- bye, pabs

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist rpmlint added checks for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450011 http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1448 I think this would be a

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:21 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I have some packages that would trigger this because the library uses generic error handling routines that include functions that can call exit() or _exit() but which are never called in practice. Ideally, that dead code would be