On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 01:17:40AM +0530, Nitesh Konkar wrote:

As mentioned in https://libvirt.org/hacking.html,
using while (1) is better than for (;;).

I feel like there was a reason for not forbidding it (and also adding an
exception for it in build-aux/check-spacing.pl, but I can't remember
that.  Maybe someone else will chime in or try finding the resons for
that in archives/git logs...