On Dec 4, 2013, at 1:33 PM, Alan Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Dec 2013, David Holland wrote: >> (*) A complete scheme for doing it right removes all the _BSD_FOO_T_ >> drivel and ifdefs scattered in userland headers in favor of: >> - a single header file that defines all the needed types prefixed >> with __, which can be included anywhere; >> - in userland, include-guarded header files akin to sys/null.h >> that define single or common groups of the names without the >> __ prefixes, e.g. <types/size_t.h>; >> - including these header files in the proper places, such as in >> standard userland header files like stddef.h; >> - in the kernel, a single header file that defines all the types >> without the __, that is or is exposed to sys/types.h but does >> not affect userland. > > Yes, that's one way of doing it right. > > Until such time as somebody does it right, please follow the pattern of > what's done already.
which is what my suggested patch does.
