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Date:      Mon, 12 Nov 2001 18:07:58 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   namespace pollution with struct thread?
Message-ID:  <200111122307.fACN7wa87802@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011112140135.A42228@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20011112140135.A42228@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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<<On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:01:35 -0800, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> said:

> I WINE developer has suggested that this is namespace
> pollution on the part of FreeBSD, but he hasn't given
> any details to support what he means.

Applications which include <sys/user.h>, or any other non-standard
header file, should expect that any conceivable symbol might be used
therein.  FreeBSD makes no guarantees as to the namespace used by
non-standard interfaces.  (We don't want to be like certain other
environments where every symbol that might conceivably be accessible
to an application is obfuscated with multiple underscores.)

-GAWollman


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