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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
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* Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> [040902 11:12] wrote:
> 
> yes.. it's tricky..
> should we define a "_KERNEL_INTERFACE" or something?
> how about _REALLY_IS_KERNEL
> which defines _KERNEL
> so if you just need the interface you define _KERNEL
> but include files cna protect REALLY internal stuff with "#ifdef 
> _REALLY_IS_KERNEL

That's too error prone and breaks ABI, you need to split the
structures like the kinfo_proc and xStructs used.

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