From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 20 16:22:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36CF14D71; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:22:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA71682; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:22:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:22:47 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Cameron Grant Subject: Re: soundcard.h Message-ID: <19991020182247.A71414@dan.emsphone.com> References: <19991020221929.B90211@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <19991020221929.B90211@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from asmodai@wxs.nl on Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 10:19:29PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 20), Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai said: > just been messing with some more include files and I am curious about > something. > > [Note: CURRENT system] > > I have a soundcard.h in both include/sys and include/machine. > > Which should have preference over the other, why does one simply not > include the other. In other words, why two _exactly_ the same files? Actually on my system it's a symlink. My guess is that some committer was sick of patching every Linux app from to . -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message