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diff --git a/filter_common.c b/filter_common.c
index add788a8..7966b806 100644
--- a/filter_common.c
+++ b/filter_common.c
@@ -67,11 +67,11 @@ const char *filter_name(int filter_num)
  * filter, optionally followed by options for this filter. If yes, call the
  * command line parser of that filter and its ->setup method.
  *
- * \return This function either succeeds or does not return. On success, the
- * number of the filter is returned and conf is initialized to point to the
- * filter configuration as returned by the filter's ->setup() method, if any.
- * Moreover, *lprp is initialized to contain the parsed command line options.
- * On errors, the function calls exit(EXIT_FAILURE).
+ * \return On success, the number of the filter is returned and conf is
+ * initialized to point to the filter configuration as returned by the filter's
+ * ->setup() method, if any.  Moreover, *lprp is initialized to contain the
+ * parsed command line options. On errors a negative paraslash error code is
+ * returned.
  */
 int filter_setup(const char *fa, void **conf, struct lls_parse_result **lprp)
 {
@@ -80,9 +80,10 @@ int filter_setup(const char *fa, void **conf, struct lls_parse_result **lprp)
 	const struct lls_command *cmd;
 	const struct filter *f;
 
+	*lprp = NULL;
 	ret = create_argv(fa, " \t\n", &argv);
 	if (ret < 0)
-		goto fail;
+		return ret;
 	argc = ret;
 	ret = lls(lls_lookup_subcmd(argv[0], filter_cmd_suite, &errctx));
 	if (ret < 0)
@@ -105,12 +106,10 @@ free_argv:
 	free_argv(argv);
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		return ret;
-fail:
 	if (errctx)
 		PARA_ERROR_LOG("%s\n", errctx);
 	free(errctx);
-	PARA_EMERG_LOG("%s\n", para_strerror(-ret));
-	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -169,17 +168,16 @@ void print_filter_list(void)
 }
 
 /**
- * Set select timeout of the scheduler.
+ * Request a minimal timeout if not idle.
  *
- * \param s The scheduler.
- * \param context Pointer to the filter node (task context).
+ * \param s The scheduler instance.
+ * \param context Pointer to the filter node.
  *
- * This looks at the status of the btr node of the filter. If data is available
- * in the input queue of the filter, or if an error occurred, a minimal timeout
- * for the next select call is requested from the scheduler. Otherwise the
- * scheduler timeout is left unchanged.
+ * If the buffer tree node of the given filter node has data available (or is
+ * in error state) a minimal I/O timeout is requested from the scheduler.
+ * Otherwise the function does nothing.
  */
-void generic_filter_pre_select(struct sched *s, void *context)
+void generic_filter_pre_monitor(struct sched *s, void *context)
 {
 	struct filter_node *fn = context;