Re: More nits (was Re: reentrant variants of gethostbyname2/gethostbyaddr)

["Ted Unangst" <ted_(_dot_)_unangst_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>]

On 3/6/06, Hannah Schroeter <hannah_(_at_)_schlund_(_dot_)_de> wrote:
> And I think <pthread.h> pollutes the global namespace in an unfortunate
> way, e.g.
>
>        struct pthread;

are you really creating your own struct pthread type?

> Wouldn't it make sense to use "private" names for the opaque struct?
> I.e.
>
>        struct __pthread;
>
>        ...
>
>        typedef struct __pthread *pthread_t;
>
> If that's accepted in general, I'd of course be ready to prepare a
> diff.

it would probably be useful just to reinforce the idea that it's
private and one shouldn't try to use it.