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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 1997 23:37:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Freebsd 3.0 current fails ipfilter 3.2b8 build (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971015233553.12735A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710152321.JAA09731@plum.cyber.com.au>

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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Darren Reed wrote:

> In some mail I received from Julian Elischer, sie wrote
> > 
> > All the "_var.h" files contain variables who'se scope is within the
> > kernel only.
> 
> Yup, I think that's a reasonable approach to take.
> 
But these are structures that are not exported, and
which ARE changing.

> I don't think it should extend, however, to structure definitions.
> 
> > The only exception is LKMs which should define KERNEL.
> > I don't know who did this, (I see in the logs it was garrett)
> > but the idea is simply to make it more obvios when you are
> > doing the WRONG thing
> > and including kernel private variables (that are subject to change, 
> > and not part of the API) .
> 
> There is an API ?
What do you want that struct for?
 
> Darren
> 




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