shorts as their name would suggest, but on uint32_t and uint16_t. Also,
"network byte order" is just a weird name for "big endian", hence we might
want to call it "big endian" right-away.
+
+- You might wonder what kind of common code belongs in src/shared/ and what
+ belongs in src/basic/. The split is like this: anything that uses public APIs
+ we expose (i.e. any of the sd-bus, sd-login, sd-id128, ... APIs) must be
+ located in src/shared/. All stuff that only uses external libraries from
+ other projects (such as glibc's APIs), or APIs from src/basic/ itself should
+ be placed in src/basic/. Conversely, src/libsystemd/ may only use symbols
+ from src/basic, but not from src/shared/. To summarize:
+
+ src/basic/ → may be used by all code in the tree
+ → may not use any code outside of src/basic/
+
+ src/libsystemd/ → may be used by all code in the tree, except for code in src/basic/
+ → may not use any code outside of src/basic/, src/libsystemd/
+
+ src/shared/ → may be used by all code in the tree, except for code in src/basic/, src/libsystemd/
+ → may not use any code outside of src/basic/, src/libsystemd/, src/shared/
+
+- Our focus is on the GNU libc (glibc), not any other libcs. If other libcs are
+ incompatible with glibc it's on them. However, if there are equivalent POSIX
+ and Linux/GNU-specific APIs, we generally prefer the POSIX APIs. If there
+ aren't, we are happy to use GNU or Linux APIs, and expect non-GNU
+ implementations of libc to catch up with glibc.
+
+- Whenever installing a signal handler, make sure to set SA_RESTART for it, so
+ that interrupted system calls are automatically restarted, and we minimize
+ hassles with handling EINTR (in particular as EINTR handling is pretty broken
+ on Linux).
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