Re: Userland headers available

[jw schultz <jw _at_ xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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