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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Unix-domain sockets - abstract addresses 
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:13:14 -0700 (PDT), 
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>   From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
>   Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:20:09 +1000
>   
>   The problem here is that 'unix' is
> ...
>   a symbol that is defined by gcc.
>
>I see.  GCC really shouldn't be doing that as it pollutes the global
>namespace.  However, I see current 3.x vintage gcc is still doing it
>under Linux so there must be a reason it is kept around.

Untested, against 2.5.31.  It would be better to -Uunix globally but
one header depends on it, drivers/message/fusion/lsi/mpi_type.h.

--- 2.5.31-pristine/net/unix/Makefile.orig	Sat May 25 14:50:09 2002
+++ 2.5.31-pristine/net/unix/Makefile	Mon Aug 12 13:54:54 2002
@@ -8,5 +8,7 @@
 unix-$(CONFIG_SYSCTL)	+= sysctl_net_unix.o
 unix-objs		:= $(unix-y)
 
+EXTRA_CFLAGS		+= -Uunix	# avoid gcc namespace pollution
+
 include $(TOPDIR)/Rules.make
 

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