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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:31:08 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-standards@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:   Re: misc/21644: /usr/include/sys/mman.h uses a type defined in /usr/include/sys/types.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301016180.3321-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <200009291628.MAA92746@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> The P1003.1-200x document eliminates the requirement for <sys/types.h>
> in many places; see (e.g.) the description of fork() at XSH pages 887
> through 891 (and specifically lines 12890 and 12891).

P1003.1-1996 doesn't require <sys/types.h> for shm_open(), so I suppose
this requirement never existed for shm_open() (and probably similarly
for the other new functions in P1003.1-1996).

> So, this is a
> change we are going to be required to make.

Not precisely the change in the PR.  <sys/types.h> has too much namespace
pollution to include nested.  The correct change (unless P1003.1-200x is
so broken as to require everything that may be in a POSIX <sys/types.h>
to be declared in <sys/mman.h>) is to replace mode_t by a basic type that
is compatible with mode_t and whose name is not in the application namespace.

Bruce



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