Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:05:36 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: RLIM_INFINITY inconsistency between archs |
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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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