On 11/06/2011 12:56 PM, Petri Hintukainen wrote:
> Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>> On 10/22/2010 01:31 AM, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm packaging libaacs for a Fedora third party repository and one of the
>>> rpmlint sanity checks on the produced binaries fails :
>>>
>>> libaacs.x86_64: W: shared-lib-calls-exit /usr/lib64/libaacs.so.0.0.0
>>> 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
>>>
>>> This is with an uptodate git checkout (git hash :
>>> 00b2df2bb7598262da44683509b50a7a983026fd).
>>> Could someone please take a look at this ?
>>>
>> This is still happening with latest git tree
>> (876f45a3f727eb6f06cdb2b0128f857226346e59).
>> I've searched the sources for call to exit() and _exit(), but couldn't
>> find anything. Can anyone help with this issue ?
> 
> It is in generated code (keydbcfg-lexer.c).
> 
> Maybe one could re-define YY_FATAL_ERROR() to print the error message
> and somehow stop lexer. Just ignoring errors won't work - calling exit()
> is still better than segfaulting when memory allocation fails etc.
> 
Thanks, Petri.
Not sure if I can fix that by myself but I'll look deeper now I know
where to search.

Regards,
Xavier

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