Steve Kargl sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu writes:
What I questioned was the criticism that FreeBSD was guilty of namespace pollution. Alexandre isn't the only wine developer who made this statement (check usenet). The header files in question are implementation dependent and can contain any variable name or #define or typedef. The fact is that both wine and FreeBSD have struct thread in implementation header files. AFAICT, neither is incorrect.
The Wine headers that define struct thread are only used inside Wine; the FreeBSD headers are used by applications, no matter how much you argue they are internal headers. So the situation is very different.
But, to have a wine developer emphatically state that FreeBSD needs to fix its system header files is somewhat surprising. Why is it surprising to me? Because this reminds me a company here in Seattle.
I couldn't care less whether FreeBSD fixes its headers or not; we will need to work around the problem in Wine in any case. I was simply expressing the opinion that changing this would make FreeBSD better. I'm certainly not demanding that the FreeBSD guys fix it, if they feel exporting struct thread is a good idea it's their choice.
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Alexandre Julliard