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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Proposal to restore traditional BSD behavior in <strings.h>.
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I'd like to restore the traditional BSD behavior that <strings.h>
includes the content of <string.h> in addition to the BSD bcmp, et. al.
We changed our <strings.h> between 4.x and 5.x and now that we're at
5-STABLE I'm finding software that built fine on 4.x has an issue on 5.x.

Index: strings.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/include/strings.h,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 strings.h
--- strings.h	23 Jul 2004 07:13:35 -0000	1.6
+++ strings.h	16 Oct 2004 17:09:40 -0000
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 
 #include <sys/cdefs.h>
 #include <sys/_types.h>
+#include <string.h>
 
 #ifndef _SIZE_T_DECLARED
 typedef	__size_t	size_t;

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)