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Date:      Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:28:53 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys select.h
Message-ID:  <20021129122620.F15170-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021128171321.GO16066@elvis.mu.org>

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On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> [021128 07:38] wrote:
> > mike        2002/11/28 07:34:32 PST
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/sys              select.h
> >   Log:
> >   Fix the standards case by referring to __fds_bits instead of fds_bits
> >   in FD_*() macros.
>
> Are we going to do a sweep where we prepend two underscores to
> almost everything (for namespace protection)?  Do we need someone
> to do it after 5.x and what is the guideline for doing it?

Hopefully not.  Underscores should only be used where necessary.  One
underscore suffices in most places (but 2 may be used for style reasons).
__fds_bits is a special case (1 underscore doesn't suffice because this
name is used in a macro).

Bruce


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