Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2002/09/20/16:30:16
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:22:49PM +0100, Conrad Scott wrote:
>I've been worried and confused about my proposed merge of the
>cygwin_daemon branch, because some of the files in the branch have a
>different name from those in HEAD: in particular, this applies to the
>System V IPC header files (ipc.h, msg.h, etc.).
>
>In the branch these are in include/sys with the correct names, while in
>HEAD they are in the main cygwin source directory with mangled names
>(cygwin_ipc.h, etc.) -- this was done to avoid confusing configuration
>scripts etc. that would otherwise have seen the headers.
>
>I've come to the conclusion that the best bet (i.e., what would make my
>life easiest) is to have the files under the same names in both branch
>and HEAD, but keep them out of the line-of-fire so that nothing finds by
>mistake. The problem with the location used by HEAD is that they don't
>end up in the installed directory areas and so make testing, even
>locally, rather difficult.
>
>My suggestion is to put these headers in include/cygwin with the correct
>names.
Is the interface working in this merge? If so, then it seems like putting
the files in sys is the way to go.
Otherwise putting them in include/cygwin is ok.
cgf
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