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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: pwd.h
Keywords: out-dates ?
Message-ID: <9903@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 9 May 91 22:28:59 GMT
References: <610@ultrix.uhasun.hartford.edu> <1991May9.003612.24952@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
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In article <1991May9.003612.24952@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans) writes:
@It was not clear if the POSIX standard requires the following program to
@work:
@
@----
@#include <pwd.h>
@main() {}
@----

It is also not clear what the ANSI C standard says.  having <sys/types.h>
included automagically has implications for name space pollution.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

P.S. When I use @ instead of > in quoted text, it is to prevent the stupid
news program from rejecting my message because I quoted too much.