Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:54:56 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Ming-I Hsieh <mihs@wm28.csie.ncu.edu.tw> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not let "sys/stat.h" include "sys/types.h"? Message-ID: <199906150454.WAA86656@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:18:04 %2B0800." <3765B7DC.E87AD77C@wm28.csie.ncu.edu.tw> References: <3765B7DC.E87AD77C@wm28.csie.ncu.edu.tw>
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In message <3765B7DC.E87AD77C@wm28.csie.ncu.edu.tw> Ming-I Hsieh writes:
: Anyone can tell me why the ``sys/stat.h'' don't include ``sys/types''!
: It will cause some imcompatible between FreeBSD and some others UN*X.
Because it isn't supposed to.
STAT(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual STAT(2)
...
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
int
stat(const char *path, struct stat *sb)
...
I believe that posix and/or ANSI-C (now ISO-C, soon to be C9x)
requires that name space polution be limited in what sys/stat.h can
cause to be defined.
Warner
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