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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: namespace pollution (if_list)
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<<On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:19:07 -0500, "Christian E. Hopps" <chopps@merit.edu> said:

> Are people failing to realize that this now prohibits use of
> `if_list' and `if_addrlist' in user programs??

If you include <net/if_var.h>, and expect to use if_ANYTHING in your
programs, you have made a serious error -- just as you cannot include
<ctype.h> and then expect to define a macro called isfoo().

-GAWollman



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