Is the attached message correct in stating that NetBSD's MSGBUFSIZE
parameter is not "posixly-correct?"

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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:16:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jspath@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us
Cc: fetchmail-friends@thyrsus.com
Subject: Re: Compile warning under NetBSD-1.3 for fetchmail-4.3.6
Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 10:37:09 -0500 (EST)
Resent-From: fetchmail-friends@ccil.org

> In file included from etrn.c:15:
> fetchmail.h:31: warning: `MSGBUFSIZE' redefined
> /usr/include/machine/param.h:99: warning: this is the location of the previous definition

Yep. This occurs on a few non posix compliant platforms where kernel symbols
leak into user name space. MSGBUFSIZE is a kernel parameter on netbsd that
"leaks". Fortunately fetchmail keep redefining it the right way.

Alan

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