Subject: Re: misc/508: requires but doesn't #include it
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@cs.orst.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 10/07/1994 10:11:32
On Fri, 7 Oct 1994 04:19:25 -0400 
 "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:

 > This patch is bogus.  If you're going to include things from sys/,
 > it's *your* problem to insure that any files they depend on are
 > included.  Adding includes like this is a slippery path to Hell.

Well, I guess I simply disagree.  If something in <sys/resource.h> is 
going to use quad_t, then it really ought to know what a quad_t is.

I'm curious to know what problems come about when sys/ stuff includes 
everything it needs...

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