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Message-ID: <CAJwEmmot0y6iaAA88tCB6anUOiqSbsV3AhFYhk__MHb1XAw3CA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:20:21 -0700
From: Benjamin Wright <benwright@...gle.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Removing sys/sysmacros.h from sys/types.h

Hello,

Would it be possible to remove the sys/sysmacros.h include from sys/types.h?

This change was added in 2011 -
https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/include/sys/types.h?id=f552c792c7ce5a560f214e1104d93ee5b0833967

However it appears to have been removed from other standard libc
implementations around ~2015 based on this announcement:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-11/msg00253.html

This can cause issues with user defined symbol collision of the symbols
major, minor or makedev.

Thanks,
Ben

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