Re: ETHERMTU

[itojun () itojun org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino)]

> I ran into this problem when I was trying to compile libpcap with a 
> package which has support for a custom interface in Linux. I get a 
> warning message about redefining ETHERMTU while compiling that package 
> as the package uses net/ethernet.h.
>
> if gencode.c (or any other code) is indeed intended for use across 
> several operating systems then it should be careful not pollute name 
> space of the platforms it intends to be used on. Please correct me if I 
> am wrong.

        namespace is not protected when non-POSIX headers are used, so i
        do not think only libpcap headers are in the wrong.  net/ethernet.h
        is in the wrong too.

itojun
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