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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:13:20 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi: avoid namespace conflict in linux/posix_types.h
To:     Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 11:03 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> There's also __kernel_fd_set in <linux/posix_types.h>.  I may have
> lumped this up with <asm/posix_types.h>, but it has the same problem.

Hmm.

That one we might be able to just fix by renaming "fds_bits" to "__fds_bits".

Unlike the "val[]" thing, I don't think anybody is supposed to access
those fields directly.

Of course, "supposed to" and "does" are two very very different things ;)

                  Linus