diff --git a/unix/aliases.go b/unix/aliases.go
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+// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// +build darwin dragonfly freebsd linux netbsd openbsd solaris
+// +build go1.9
+
+package unix
+
+import "syscall"
+
+type Signal = syscall.Signal
+type Errno = syscall.Errno
+type SysProcAttr = syscall.SysProcAttr
diff --git a/windows/aliases.go b/windows/aliases.go
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+// Copyright 2018 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+// +build windows
+// +build go1.9
+
+package windows
+
+import "syscall"
+
+type Errno = syscall.Errno
+type SysProcAttr = syscall.SysProcAttr