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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet tcp_input.c tcp_usrreq.c
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>>> solution for now.
>> 
>> No, that's what's actually wrong. tcpstates has to be static to honor the 
>> intent of the original author. If you want to do something extern then the 
>> actual tcpstates should go into tcp_debug.c. However, this is slightly less 
>> flexible in that the way it is now each source file can include this array 
>> simply by defining TCPSTATES (independent of TCPDEBUG as an option).
>
> It should go int tcp_input.c if any because that's the only file that
> always needs it now. If you do not have TCP there will be no
> tcp_input and TCPDEBUG will make no sense but there can be a tcp_input
> without TCPDEBUG/tcp_debug.
>
> It has been used with the extern in netipx since 1995.
>
> It is exposed to user space so moving it out of the header will break
> things.
>
> If you have any other better short term solution to not break anything
> I am happy but I could not see one.
>
> As said, I am not happy with the extern either.

All of these statements seem to cancel each other out or are incorrec. I 
consider the subject closed as it is compiling a universe run right now.