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SubjectRe: Userland headers available
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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