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 >> <[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 -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
