Jean-Pierre Demailly - 2014-10-04

On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 01:43:54AM +0000, aliaksei wrote:

** [bugs:#15] shared-lib-calls-exit**

Status: open
Group: v1.0 (example)
Created: Sat Oct 04, 2014 01:43 AM UTC by aliaksei
Last Updated: Sat Oct 04, 2014 01:43 AM UTC
Owner: nobody

Hello!
I trying to build package (libXaw3dXft) and in OBS RPMLINT the following warning:

libXaw3dxft8.i586: W: shared-lib-calls-exit /usr/lib64/libXaw3dxft.so.8.0.2 exit@GLIBC_2.2.5
This library package calls exit() or _exit(), probably in a non-fork()
context. Doing so from a library is strongly discouraged - when a library
function calls exit(), it prevents the calling program from handling the
error, reporting it to the user, closing files properly, and cleaning up any
state that the program has. It is preferred for the library to return an
actual error code and let the calling program decide how to handle the
situation.

See: https://pmbs.links2linux.de/package/live_build_log/home:awissu:branches:Extra/libXaw3dXft/openSUSE_13.1/i586

Thank you for the attention, hope this report helps development.

Thanks for reporting - I'll take a look. A new version was brewing anyway, so it will be an occasion to look at that issue.

Best,
Jean-Pierre Demailly

 

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