lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Jun]   [19]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: glibc compiling with kernel 2.5.70-bk17
Date
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.

-hpa
--
<hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:36    [W:0.027 / U:1.212 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site