Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:48:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PLEASE no more "standards" headers work until after 5.0.
Message-ID:  <200210211648.g9LGmwFp060341@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021021185251.A73608@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
References:  <20021021071515.GA21147@dragon.nuxi.com> <20021021023556.E1126-100000@patrocles.silby.com> <20021021185251.A73608@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
<<On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:52:51 +1000, Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> The "appropriate" fix for dsniff is to remove this line from config.h.
> Putting the in_addr_t typedef back into <sys/types.h> under _BSD_VISIBLE
> would also fix it.

Recall that POSIX gives us plenary authority to define *any* _t type
in any standard header.

We normally don't do this so that programs which ask to be broken when
they make use of non-standard declarations do, in fact, get broken.

-GAWollman


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200210211648.g9LGmwFp060341>