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From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 03:42:34PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> >
> > > any objections to this patch?  It moves the identifiers starting with
> > > MUTEX_ into the BSD namespace.
> >
> > Looks fine to me.  I don't even think we should have MUTEX_*
> > around anyways.
>
> But we had those names for quite a while and maybe there are
> applications using them, that's why I provided the compatibility macros.

Yes, but you wouldn't break ABI by removing them (I'd advocate
doing this in -current).

-- 
DE