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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: PLEASE no more "standards" headers work until after 5.0.
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<<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


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