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Re: Sharing of bits/fcntl.h on Linux (SPARC, x86)

On Tuesday, October 23, 2012 16:47:01 Roland McGrath wrote:
> > POSIX.1, 2001 edition specifies that the types are present. 
> > Previous
> > editions of POSIX reserve the *_t suffix and so permit the types to
> > be defined, and in glibc we choose to make headers self-contained
> > in that way (defining all the types that the header is specified to
> > use) when permitted.
> 
> OK, so I think an appropriate comment is:
> 
> /* POSIX.1-2001 specifies that these types are defined by <fcntl.h>.
>    Earlier POSIX standards permitted any type ending in `_t' to be
> defined by any POSIX header, so we don't conditionalize the
> definitions here.  */

Committed with this change,

Thanks!
Andreas
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