Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:59:59 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: Redefinition of struct in6_addr in <netinet/in.h> and <linux/in6.h> | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 12:28:39 -0500
> if you're not calling the kernel directly, why are you including the kernel > headers ? what is the problem people are actually trying to address here (and > no, "i want to include both headers" is not the answer) ?
When GLIBC doesn't provide it's own definition of some networking macros or interfaces that the kernel provides, people include the kernel header.
This has been done for decades, wake up.
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