Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:47:18 -0800 | From | jw schultz <> | Subject | Re: Userland headers available |
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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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