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> From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
> Date: Sun 29 Dec, 2002
> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys _iovec.h socket.h uio.h

> Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > Urk, I wasn't advocating including <sys/types.h> in either <sys/socket.h>
> > or <sys/uio.h>, simply pointing out that an application using either of
> > the last two will also be including the first.
> 
> Not necessarily; POSIX.1-2001 places no such requirement on applications.

Where else is ssize_t defined?  Or do you mean that it's valid not to
require parameter type definitions to be in scope for unused prototypes?

However, we all agree that <sys/types.h> isn't a good place to define
struct iovec, so this point is moot.

		Cheers,

		Mark.

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