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SubjectRe: Userland headers available
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:39:57PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Friesen, Christopher [CAR:7Q28:EXCH] wrote:
>
> >The obvious way is to have the kernel headers include the userland
> >headers, then everything below that be wrapped in "#ifdef __KERNEL__".
> >Userland then includes the normal kernel headers, but only gets the
> >userland-safe ones.
>
> I just realized this wasn't clear. I envision a new set of headers in
> the kernel that are clean to export to userland. The current headers
> then include the appropriate userland-clean ones, and everything below
> that is kernel only.
>
> This lets the kernel maintain the userland-clean headers explicitly, and
> we don't have the work of cleaning them up for glibc.

This gets discussed every few months. I think the most
recent was in August.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=linux-kernel+include/abi&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=lXHU.431.1%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1

(google linux-kernel include/abi)

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