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Subject: Re: header file bug sys/types.h sys/file.h vs. _XOPEN_SOURCE
	standard
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"Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de> writes:
> I've talked to Theodore Y. Ts'o, who is the sysutils/e2fsprogs
> upstream maintainer and proposed to remove the _XOPEN_SOURCE
> definition (my idea  was that the code shouldn't be claiming standards
> compliance while it uses  non-standard headers), but he refused that
> (since it would break the  e2fsprogs build on Solaris).

He's right.  You misunderstand _XOPEN_SOURCE; it does not mean "my
program complies with X/Open blah", it means "my program requires the
facilities provided by X/Open blah".  The problem lies in FreeBSD's
headers, which don't implement namespace separation correctly.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no