Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:25:33 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: namespace pollution with struct thread? Message-ID: <20011112162533.A43547@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111121549210.94926-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>; from julian@elischer.org on Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:50:16PM -0800 References: <200111122307.fACN7wa87802@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111121549210.94926-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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I can confirm that I can build wine and run it if I put #ifdef _KERNEL ... #endif in sys/proc.h. I was uncertain about whether sys/user.h was a non-standard header file. I will probably relay Garrett's point to the wine developers at some point. steve On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:50:16PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > On the other hand we might conceivably be able to > stop the export from the kernel of this struct type. > > > 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 > > > > -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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