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From: Csaba Raduly <rcsaba AT gmail DOT com>
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Why does /usr/include/cygwin/types.h include /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h ?

As far as I  {and  find /usr/include/ /usr/local/include/ -name *.h |
xargs egrep -n '\b(major|minor) *\('  } can see, the "major" and
"minor" macros are not used by any system header. These macros don't
follow the usual C/C++ coding convention of all-uppercase macro names
and just caused some ... interesting errors in the project I'm working
on.

If any program needs sys/sysmacros.h, it should #include the header explicitly.

Csaba
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