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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 1995 14:16:24 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        chuckr@glue.umd.edu, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Make world falling over
Message-ID:  <9510291916.AA26418@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199510290621.RAA26602@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References:  <199510290621.RAA26602@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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<<On Sun, 29 Oct 1995 17:21:25 +1100, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

> Right.  I forgot to say in my previous mail that <sys/sysctl.h> is now
> almost self contained so the synopsis in sysctl.3 is now almost correct.
> It is still necessary to include <sys/types.h> before <sys/sysctl.h>
> because sysctl.h uses u_int (which should never be used) and size_t
> (which is too much trouble to declare in yet another place).

It's fairly well-established that you have to include <sys/types.h>
before including any other sys/ header file, and has been that way for
as long as I can remember.

-GAWollman

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