Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:30:00 -0500 | From | Daniel Jacobowitz <> | Subject | Re: Userland headers available |
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On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 01:38:06AM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <4011788D.3070606@nortelnetworks.com> > By author: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > 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. > > > > We've referred to this for quite a while as the "ABI header project"; > it's been targetted for 2.7, since it missed the 2.6 freeze. > > We have set up a mailing list at: > > http://zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/linuxabi > > The goal is to get a formal exportable version of the kernel ABI that > user-space libraries can use.
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