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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:49:59 +0300
From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: <sys/types.h> or not <sys/types.h>? [Was: cvs commit: src/include grp.h]
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 13:28:21 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:23:53 +0300, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> said:
> 
> >> From IEEE P1003.1 Draft 7:
> 
> You're looking at the wrong document.  FreeBSD is very far from being
> ready to implement POSIX 2001 header files.  POSIX 1990, which we do
> implement, requires <sys/types.h> almost everywhere.

Well, if we are very far, it will be just little step to be closer.  On
other case we will be very far forever. If you mean hypotetical one-step
transition mega-patch in future, it will breaks too many things at once to
be something real.

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Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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