Should sys/types.h include sys/sysmacros.h?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed May 22 08:31:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:02:58AM -0400, Gerald S. Williams wrote:
>Jason Tishler wrote:
>> AFAICT, cygwin/types.h did *not* include sys/sysmacros.h until the
>> following:
>>     http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2002-q2/msg00048.html
>
>You're right about that--I was comparing against CVS since my installed
>copy had already been patched.  So the _POSIX_THREADS restriction
>wasn't causing your problem (though it still looks fishy and there are
>times where you want to define it).  Other than that issue, it looks
>like the problem's already fixed.

Is that really surprising?  Jason sent his initial message on 2002-05-01
and it is now 2002-05-22.

cgf



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