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Date:      Mon, 23 Dec 1996 12:59:29 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: Making an option `supported'
Message-ID:  <199612231159.MAA03543@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612231019.VAA18449@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 23, 96 09:19:37 pm"

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As Bruce Evans wrote:

> Most options should go in a header file by themself.  Then the option
> file is automatically given a name related to the option if the file
> name is not given explicitly: option BAR -> file name opt_bar.h.

> You forgot the most important point :-): if a system header needs to be
> edited, then don't add the option.  E.g., the CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX
> options should never have existed, because they break <limits.h>.

(etc.)

Ok, i've merged this with my original posting, and are about adding it
to the handbook right now.

-- 
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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