2017-02-11 15:28 GMT+01:00 Eric van Gyzen <[email protected]>:
> I would be concerned that app developers would read this definition, ignore
> the one in the man page, and use the __-prefixed types in their apps.

I think that's a concern that's not specific to the change at hand, as
that's simply how BSD header files work. Take a look at the
declaration of kill() in our copy of <signal.h>:

int     kill(__pid_t, int);

This is simply the construct that the BSDs use to depend on a type
without exposing it.

-- 
Ed Schouten <[email protected]>
Nuxi, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
KvK-nr.: 62051717
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