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Re: struct terminal in /usr/include/term.h



>>>>> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 01:06:04 -0400 (EDT),
      der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> said:

>> It looks like Linux or FreeBSD uses `struct term' instead of `struct
>> terminal' to typedef `TERMINAL'.

> That's no reason to copy their mistake.  They shouldn't be stomping on
> user namespace either.

That's theoretically a good point, but isn't valid actually.
Since not only Linux and FreeBSD, but also commercial UNIX variants
(including Solaris) use struct term as well.
Thus, portable software cannot use struct term with <term.h> anyway.
-- 
soda


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