Re: Use of Kernel Headers

[Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com>]

Antony Stone wrote:

>On Tuesday 17 August 2004 9:40 pm, Jim Gifford wrote:
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>>I have been asked this question a lot of times, and I think it should be
>>asked here for an official answer.
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>>It has been stated numerous times that userspace programs should not be
>>compiled against raw kernel headers, but iptables does compile against
>>userspace headers and breaks this rule. With the advent of the
>>linux-libc-headers package, should iptables be compiled against the
>>linux-libc-headers or the raw kernel headers since iptables is a user
>>space program?
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>>Should patch-o-matic update the headers in the proper location,
>>/usr/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4 etc?
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>Patch-o-matic is not the right way of doing this - this would be dealt with in 
>a new version release of iptables.
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>P-o-M is for adding new features and functions (which are optional and not 
>used by most iptables users) to netfilter; it couldn't sensibly be used to 
>change the structure of how it compiles.
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>As for the answer to your question, I think that is one for the developers' 
>list.   Some of them do read this list, but cannot be guaranteed to see all 
>posts or respond to them due to the volume.
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>Regards,
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>Antony.
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Thanx Anthony, will do.

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