C in 6th Edition Unix was a wild and woolly language
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Presumably this is why members of common unixy structs have their names prefixed a bit (e.g. st_mode)

Apr 3, 2018 ยท 12:30 PM UTC

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I was just thinking that before I screamed, and hid under the desk.
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The prefixes are due to K&R era single namespace for all struct members ... this is a pre-K&R C where there was even less struct type checking
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