On Apr 15, 10:45am, perry@piermont.com ("Perry E. Metzger") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys

| Er, we live in an age of modern compilers -- the namespace inside
| structs is struct specific. Why do struct members need prefixes like
| io_?

They pollute the user's namespace. Consider:

#define busy 1
#include <sys/foo.h>

christos