[OTR-dev] 4.0.0-rc3 ready to roll. Please try it out!

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Wed Oct 3 20:41:54 EDT 2012


On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 06:23:14PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm about to upload pidgin-otr 4.0.0 to debian unstable, and it
> appears the "calls exit()" issue has moved to pidgin-otr. I don't know
> enough of pidgin plugin system to know whether this is a false
> positive or not, but I thought I might blow the whistle anyway...
> 
> HTH
> 
> Thibaut
> 
> X: pidgin-otr: shlib-calls-exit usr/lib/pidgin/pidgin-otr.so
> N:
> N:    The listed shared library calls the C library exit() or _exit()
> N:    functions.

Yes, this is true.  The fix to libotr just moved the exit to the calling
application, which in this case it itself a .so.  But I'm fine with this
state of affairs, at least for now.

   - Ian



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