[GiNaC-devel] Shared lib calls exit

[Fabian Affolter]

Hi,

I'm packaging ginac for the Fedora Package Collection.  Now I have
the following rpmlint warning on ginac 1.4.4.  Can you have a look
at it and have it fixed for the next release, please?

[fab at laptop24 i386]$ rpmlint -i ginac*
ginac.i386: W: shared-lib-calls-exit /usr/lib/libginac-1.4.so.0.0.4
exit at GLIBC_2.0
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.

Perhaps the intention was to *return* something, and perhaps non-zero?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,

Fabian

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