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Subject: Re: RFC: deprecate sys/sysmacros.h inclusion from sys/types.h
To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
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From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 14:03:00 -0000
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On 11/18/2015 11:13 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Andreas may still be running whole-distro rebuild tests, but enough
> results came back that I feel fairly confident saying that option B
> (remove the #include <sys/types.h> from stdlib.h) is a non-starter.
> There are too many (sloppily coded, yes) programs that include stdlib.h
> and expect it to expose all the POSIX foo_t types.  That leaves us with
> option A (remove the #include <sys/sysmacros.h> from sys/types.h) and
> even that is going to break stuff.  So we need a deprecation period.
> 
> The attached, lightly tested, patch sets up that deprecation period.

Ping.  The patch at
<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-11/msg00452.html> is awaiting
review.

zw