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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 01:19:11 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: #include file xref philosophy
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970108011911.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199701072241.JAA17826@profane.iq.org>; from Julian Assange on Jan 8, 1997 09:41:30 %2B1100
References:  <199701072241.JAA17826@profane.iq.org>

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As Julian Assange wrote:

> What is the -current philosophy on intra #include file dependencies?
> 
> Is there any reason for not following the posix line and having
> include files resolve all their own dependencies? I'm talking about
> things like <dirent.h> needing the code that includes it, include
> <sys/types.h> before hand.

IIRC, Bruce once mentioned that Posix allows it to require the
inclusion of <sys/types.h> (xor another <sys/something.h> which i
eventually forgot) before other things.

Either way, the corresponding man pages should at least mention the
required include files, so your complaint about ``magical knowledge''
would not be true.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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