Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 19:11:14 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: misc/21644: /usr/include/sys/mman.h uses a type defined in /usr/include/sys/types.h Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010041906490.10679-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <200010031910.PAA43095@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > In certain instances, POSIX actually requires that the types > themselves be defined; for example, <sys/stat.h> is required to cause > the definition of the types `blkcnt_t', `blksize_t', `dev_t', `ino_t', > `mode_t', `nlink_t', `uid_t', `gid_t', `off_t', and `time_t' from > <sys/types.h>. This suggests to me that we may need to use the > _BSD_SIZE_T trick on many or all of the types in question. If we can > centralize these definitions it would be better than allowing the > various _t types to potentially become desynchronized with their > consumers. I agree. This makes the treatment of POSIX typedefs more like the treatment of Standard C typedefs (<sys/types.h> shouldn't exist; instead, each header should declare precisely the types required to use the header, preferably without types being defined all over the place). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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