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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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"M. Warner Losh" wrote:
> -current already does this.  The problem is that we're trying to shoot
> the bad access in the head, and that is what is screwing people.  So
> the problem isn't that we're trying to export private data to the
> world.  Quite the contrary, we're trying to eliminate it and having
> growing pains.

No, it's actually an attempt to change which private data is exported;
the new code exports three private values, instead of an array of
private values.

Data interfaces are evil ("proc size mismatch").

Probably "FILE *" should be void *.  8-(.

-- Terry

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