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SubjectRe: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> It still means that the kernel header files would have to be source-level
> backwards compatible forever. Something which hasn't been true in the
> past, and I don't want to be true in the future either. It's been damn
> painful to not be able to clean stuff up because some user-level setup is
> wrong.

If drop source compatibility with user space, you end up with
user/kernel API files referring to <asm/types.h> (at best).

That works fine but your suggestion to copy definitions into
applications is then ever more messy. All the basic types (`u32' etc.)
are wrong. So a straight cut and paste will not always work.

-- Jamie


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