> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 06:54:14 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
> 
>     Question to tech-kern:
> 
> 	Nothing in userland uses the MSGBUFSIZE definition in 
> 	machine/param.h (since it can very from kernel to kernel).
[...]
> 	Could/should the machine/param.h MSGBUFSIZE definition be 
> 	protected in #ifdef _KERNEL?

>     Reply to jspath:
> 
> 	I doubt fetchmail is using the MSGBUFSIZE define for the same
> 	purpose, so that would not be the desired behaviour.
> 
> 	Some options are
[...]
> 	   b) Modify <machine/param.h> to hide MSGBUFSIZE from userland.

There are many, many definitions exposed to user-land that can be
considered namespace pollution.  MSGBUFSIZE is just one of them.

Fixing that would a fairly big project.
Is this something that should be fixed?
Is anyone willing to work on it?