On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, DRC wrote: > exit() is called by error_exit() in jerror.c, which is part of the > libjpeg source. error_exit() is part of the standard error manager > for libjpeg. Applications do not have to use that error manager. > The TurboJPEG wrapper, specifically, uses its own custom error > manager that will catch errors in the underlying libjpeg API and > allow the TurboJPEG API functions to return an error code and set > the TurboJPEG error string instead of exiting.
> The lintian warning is meant to clue you in to possible > unintentional consequences of calling exit() within an API function, > but this behavior in libjpeg is intentional and is not default (an > application has to specifically request it.) Thus, you can ignore > the warning. thank you for the details. From this description it indeed sounds like a good reason for a lintian override (probably in libjpeg8 as well) -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
