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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 17:15:02 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Removing sys/sysmacros.h from sys/types.h
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 01:20:21PM -0700, Benjamin Wright wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Would it be possible to remove the sys/sysmacros.h include from sys/types.h?
>
> This change was added in 2011 -
> https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/include/sys/types.h?id=f552c792c7ce5a560f214e1104d93ee5b0833967
>
> However it appears to have been removed from other standard libc
> implementations around ~2015 based on this announcement:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-11/msg00253.html
>
> This can cause issues with user defined symbol collision of the symbols
> major, minor or makedev.
Yes, I'd actually forgotten we did this. I'll remove it right away in
time for the next release.
Rich
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