[Fwd: Macros "major" and "minor"]

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun 15 15:47, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> So I was wondering why sys/sysmacros.h is included in cygwin/types.h
> at all.  I found no reason.  Even Cygwin builds without it.
> 
> If nobody has a good reson to keep sys/sysmacros.h included in
> cygwin/types.h, I'll remove the #include soon.

Oops, scratch that.  I just tested that on Linux and in the default
case, major/minor and makedev are defined because __USE_BSD is defined.
So it's apparently not wrong to define these macros through inclusion
of sys/types.h, even though they are not even mentioned in SUSv3, AFAICS.


Corinna

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