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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ISC Fix
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.151810.5324@pegasus.com>
Date: 17 Jul 90 15:18:10 GMT
References: <231423@<1990Jul15> <70400012@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>/* ---------- "ISC Fix" ---------- */
>Here's part of an article I posted recently to gnu.g++.  This is
>something that helped me bring up a number of packages more easily on
>386/ix 2.0.2.  If someone could check and see if this is valid for ESIX
>and 386/ix 2.2 I'd appreciate it.
>[ comments on adding things to sys/types.h and sys/sioctl.h ]
>/* End of text from m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.i386 */
>
>IMHO the better way to do this is to just modify sys/types.h as follows
>
>#ifndef SYS_TYPES
><original file contents>
>#define SYS_TYPES
>#endif
>
>This will have the same effect as your fix for sioctl.h (types.h will be
>included twice, but the second time it will be an empty file), and avoid the
>problem of finding all the places that might include types.h twice.

I guess I didn't explain well enough.  It wasn't a *fix* for sioctl.h
is was a creation of that file since it didn't come with ISC Unix.  The
handling of sys/types.h was just a peripheral issue.

I did say that didn't I?


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com