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Date:      Sat, 28 Dec 2002 14:17:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
To:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/sys/sys _iovec.h socket.h uio.h
Message-ID:  <200212282217.gBSMHTRJ050345@repoman.freebsd.org>

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phk         2002/12/28 14:17:29 PST

  Modified files:
    sys/sys              socket.h uio.h 
  Added files:
    sys/sys              _iovec.h 
  Log:
  It is bad style to define the same structure in multiple header
  files which might be included together.
  
  Things like debuggers and lint-like programs get their knickers in
  a twist (rightly so one might add) when they find different locations
  for the same named struct depending on which .h file were included
  first.
  
  This is a stellar example of Very Bad Thinking on the part of the
  standards dudes who wrote that both sys/uio.h and sys/socket.h
  should define struct iovec the same way.
  
  Fix this by putting struct iovec into its own miniature sys/_iovec.h
  file and #include that from sys/socket.h and sys/uio.h.
  
  Sensible people could just put iovec into sys/_types.h but there
  is probably some standard or other which will be violated if we
  did something that horrible.
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.1       +45 -0     src/sys/sys/_iovec.h (new)
  1.70      +1 -8      src/sys/sys/socket.h
  1.24      +1 -8      src/sys/sys/uio.h

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