Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: glibc compiling with kernel 2.5.70-bk17 | Date | 18 Jun 2003 23:16:00 -0700 |
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Followup to: <3EF12031.8020709@hereintown.net> By author: Chris Meadors <clubneon@hereintown.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Your first comment is something I had wondered about for a while. A > stable set of userspace kernel headers. That would be nice. Of course > changes could be made to reflect new kernel interfaces. So they should > still be distributed with the kernel source. Then glibc could be > compiled against those updates, and the headers installed as the system > default. But it wouldn't be so forbidden for userspace to touch them. >
Yes, this is the "ABI headers" project that has been discussed extensively on this list. It's pretty important, but unlikely to happen in time for 2.6.
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