On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:45:59PM +1000, Greg Black wrote: > Ian Noname wrote: > > | > The general rule is "including includes from includes is bad". > | > | Okay, it's time to point out that these are opinions, not rules, and > | differing opinions exist. > > There's no shortage of opinions. They are like arseholes: > everybody has one. But there are rules that have been carefully > worked out by people who have put a lot of time into them, and > those rules are documented in the man pages for each interface > in the system. A programmer who can read can get this stuff > right without even rasing a sweat. >
OK, time to check an actual example to see if the supposed reason this is a GoodThing(tm) exists. % man open ... SYNOPSIS #include <fcntl.h> int open(const char *path, int flags, ...); ... % ed $inc/fcntl.h ... /* * This file includes the definitions for open and fcntl * described by POSIX for <fcntl.h>; it also includes * related kernel definitions. */ #ifndef _KERNEL #include <sys/types.h> #endif ... So, the reasoning here appears specious. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message