Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:50:16 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: namespace pollution with struct thread? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111121549210.94926-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200111122307.fACN7wa87802@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On the other hand we might conceivably be able to stop the export from the kernel of this struct type. On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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