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<<On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:23:43 +1100 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

> It is strictly correct for POSIX.1-1990, but FreeBSD-2 never had the
> requirement until now.  POSIX.1-200x is relaxing similar requirements
> (I'm not sure about this one), so it is too late to start enforcing it.

Yes.  All POSIX headers which are defined to use specific foo_t types
are (will be) defined to declare those types as well.  This reflects
SUSv2 behavior which was imported into the new POSIX.

-GAWollman



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