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diff --git a/write.h b/write.h
index c7196dc5..d5834b4c 100644
--- a/write.h
+++ b/write.h
@@ -36,21 +36,20 @@ struct writer {
 	/**
 	 * The command line parser of the writer.
 	 *
-	 * It should check whether the command line options given by \a options are
-	 * valid.  On success, it should return a pointer to the writer-specific
-	 * configuration data determined by \a options.  Note that this might be called
-	 * more than once with different values of \a options.
+	 * It should check whether the command line options given by \a options
+	 * are valid and return a pointer to the writer-specific configuration
+	 * data determined by \a options. This function must either succeed or
+	 * call exit(). Note that parse_config_or_die() might be called more
+	 * than once with different values of \a options. \sa \ref
+	 * free_config().
 	 */
-	void *(*parse_config)(const char *options);
-	void (*free_config)(void *conf);
+	void *(*parse_config_or_die)(const char *options);
 	/**
-	 * Open one instance of this writer.
+	 * Dellocate all configuration resources.
 	 *
-	 * This function should perform any work necessary to write the incoming
-	 * stream. To this aim, it may allocate its private data structure and store
-	 * a pointer to that structure via the given writer_node parameter.
+	 * This should free whatever was allocated by \ref parse_config_or_die().
 	 */
-	int (*open)(struct writer_node *);
+	void (*free_config)(void *config);
 	/**
 	 * Prepare the fd sets for select.
 	 *