Re: PROBLEM: please remove reserved word "new" from kernel headers

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 12:55:18 EST


On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 02:26 -0700, Rob Prowel wrote:
> While not an error, per se, it is kind of sloppy and
> it is amazing that it hasn't shown up before now.
> using the identifier "new" in kernel headers that are
> visible to applications programs is a bad idea.

It _is_ an error, on mysql's part. The kernel headers are _not_ intended
to be visible to applications, in the general case. Why is mysql
including this header?

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dwmw2

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