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Re: Patches to improve Hurd parts: include/sys/socket.h

From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>
Cc: Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge at gnu dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:25:01 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Patches to improve Hurd parts: include/sys/socket.h
References: <20081217170523.GH26067@fencepost.gnu.org><20081217170809.GJ26067@fencepost.gnu.org><20081217170900.GK26067@fencepost.gnu.org><878wqes71p.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>

> Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Some questions remain.  Note that all this is not Hurd-specific.
> >
> > Are we allowed to include <fcntl.h> from include/sys/socket.h?
> 
> No, as that would infringe on the user's name space.  Please see the
> following specification of the names that POSIX currently allows
> <sys/socket.h> to define:

We are talking about the internal file used in building libc.
(Please see what's actually in include/ in your libc sources.)
Your comments about name space issues are not apropos.

Thanks,
Roland

References:
- Patches to improve Hurd parts
  - From: Thomas Schwinge
- Patches to improve Hurd parts: bits/socket.h
  - From: Thomas Schwinge
- Patches to improve Hurd parts: include/sys/socket.h
  - From: Thomas Schwinge
- Re: Patches to improve Hurd parts: include/sys/socket.h
  - From: Paul Eggert

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