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Date:      Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:11:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      pasky@ucw.cz
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   i386/52971: bad macro LIST_HEAD in /usr/include/sys/queue.h
Message-ID:  <200306051611.h55GBqMP002675@253client.scnet.cz>
Resent-Message-ID: <200306051750.h55Ho9Q0065133@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         52971
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       bad macro LIST_HEAD in /usr/include/sys/queue.h
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 05 10:50:08 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     root
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 253client.scnet.cz 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #1: Sat May 10 23:58:26 CEST 2003 root@pretorian.home:/usr/src/sys/compile/pretorian0 i386

In FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE, /usr/include/sys/queue.h (included from ie. sys/select.h) contains definition of a LIST_HEAD macro. This is a namespace clash, since it interferes with variors userspace programs (ie. ELink-CVS) and presence of this symbol is not defined in any standard. The macro should me moved to the system namespace by prefixing it with __ or the namespace clash should be fixed in some other way.

Reported by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>, he couldn't report by himself as he has no access to a FreeBSD system personally and the web interface is not working.
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