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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>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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