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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:24:31 -0800 (PST)
From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject: Re: namespace pollution with struct thread?
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG,
	Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>,
	Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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

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