On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Gleb Smirnoff <gleb...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Bruce, > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 09:07:25PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > B> Just routine avoidance of namespace pollution. This is easy in such a > B> simple header. > > Sorry, with all respect, but I can't call including sys/types.h > a namespace pollution. > > Ok, even you force me to name it that way, still I would prefer > namespace pollution instead of handmade copy pasted typedefs.
But Gleb, making such changes unilaterally is a bit of a leap. The project has mostly accepted Bruce's wisdom about trying to minimize and reduce namespace pollution. Now, this isn't a standard header so it's quite a bit less of a concern, but it's not no concern. If you think that we should reverse our trend on including namespace-polluting headers in system headers, we should discuss that on arch@, and it shouldn't be something that's done without any discussion or consideration. Should we expect further changes of this nature (and of the proposed nature removing __size_t and __ssize_t use) if you make changes to other headers as part of your work? Are you going to add <sys/types.h> to every header currently using <sys/_types.h> in a single go, or will you be doing that a little at a time when making functional changes? Thanks, Juli. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
