Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:24:31 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: namespace pollution with struct thread? Message-ID: <XFMail.011112162431.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111121549210.94926-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On 12-Nov-01 Julian Elischer wrote: > On the other hand we might conceivably be able to > stop the export from the kernel of this struct type. Not unless we stop exporting struct proc since each proc has an embedded thread. > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > >> <<On Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:01:35 -0800, Steve Kargl >> <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> said: >> >> > I WINE developer has suggested that this is namespace >> > pollution on the part of FreeBSD, but he hasn't given >> > any details to support what he means. >> >> Applications which include <sys/user.h>, or any other non-standard >> header file, should expect that any conceivable symbol might be used >> therein. FreeBSD makes no guarantees as to the namespace used by >> non-standard interfaces. (We don't want to be like certain other >> environments where every symbol that might conceivably be accessible >> to an application is obfuscated with multiple underscores.) >> >> -GAWollman -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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