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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:42:20 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/net/gnomenetwork/patches patch-af patch-ag
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003131426070.1391-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003140130430.1486-100000@alphplex.bde.org>

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:

> > Why are you doing that instead of getting someone to fix sys/socket.h?  It
> > is only supposed to need sys/types.h according to my knowledge (which has
> > been on a firm base of the PSD :), experience, and heck, the manpage
> > for socket(2).  Shouldn't this be a very immportant bug to fix, rather than
> > just working around it in the ports?
> 
> <sys/socket.h> doesn't fully depend on <sys/param.h>.  The CMSG*() macros
> now use ALIGN() which is in <sys/param.h> (actually in <machine/param.h>).
> I'm surprised that any ports use them.

Shouldn't this be fixed, since that's how it's documented to use the
sys/socket.h header, with just sys/types.h a prerequesite?  I understand
not wanting to poison the includes, but this could cause people lots of
porting problems.

> Bruce

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