Re: Preventing abort() and exit() calls in libpq

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Jacob Champion <pchampion@vmware.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, info@cspug.cz
Date: 2021-06-29T23:57:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Ah, I nm'd all files in src/interfaces/libpq and got no hits for abort.
But I did get one in libpgport_shlib.a:

path_shlib.o:
                 U abort
		 0000000000000320 T canonicalize_path
		 0000000000000197 T cleanup_path
		 00000000000009e3 t dir_strcmp
		 ...

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Álvaro Herrera       Valdivia, Chile
"People get annoyed when you try to debug them."  (Larry Wall)



Commits

  1. Further restrict the scope of no-exit()-in-libpq test.

  2. Improve build-time check that libpq doesn't call exit().

  3. Fix portability fallout from commit dc227eb82.

  4. Add a build-time check that libpq doesn't call exit() or abort().