sys/ types policy

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Mar 3 04:30:50 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 03:15:07PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Ick.  no.  We are not going to start creating _blah.h
>     header files.  If you want to phase out BSD types
>     then we need to clean up any remaining uses of them, then
>     we can conditionalize them within types.h, or
>     something like that.

OK, the problem is that removing anything from sys/types.h can and
supposedly will break a lot of 3rd party applications. I want to
cleanup the uses in internal header files. The alternative would
be a BSD_VISIBLE or so [from FreeBSD 5].

Joerg

> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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