On 14 Dec 2018 16:31, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > This header provides only three typedefs: n_long, n_short, and n_time.
> > OpenSSH doesn't use it at all, and the headers it includes don't. So
> > punt this ancient include since it offers nothing useful.
>
> IIRC this was needed on some systems because other sys/* headers depended
> on its definitions.
>
> No idea if that's still the case though
i looked through current {Open,Net,Free}BSD systems and couldn't find
such dependencies. so it's a question of what systems still exist ...
alternatively could add a configure time test for the header and move
the include to something like includes.h.
-mike
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