Re: Userland headers available

[Chris Friesen <cfriesen _at_ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Chris



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