[9851] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.4G: /usr/include/unistd.h
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Wed Sep 2 22:26:37 1992
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 22:26:24 -0400
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
System name: hodge
Type and version: KN01 7.4G
Display type: PMAX-MFB
What were you trying to do?
Compile a program.
What's wrong:
Someone's being a twit. Look at the end of the file:
/* Kludge-around for POSIX typedef braindamage */
extern short /* gid_t */
getegid(),
getgid();
extern int /* off_t */
lseek();
extern int /* pid_t */
fork(),
getpgrp(),
getpid(),
getppid(),
setsid(),
tcgetpgrp();
extern short /* uid_t */
geteuid(),
getuid();
What is this baloney? Are they too lazy to include <sys/types.h> before
<unistd.h> in source code that uses these types (as POSIX specifies) or
are the header files so screwed up that things will break of they try?
What if someone decides that off_t should be long instead of int and
forgets to change it in both places? (They can do that, you know.)
What should have happened:
These declarations should be fixed, and any code that breaks by
fixing them should be fixed. C compilers don't read your your comments,
and they certainly don't read your mind. (Heck, you're lucky if you can
get the RISC C compiler to read your code.)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
N/A
