From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@computer.org>,
Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: include/linux/xattr.h: how much userpace visible?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:29:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E36D76.5030507@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060724184534.GA26842@mars.ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> The userspace headers are supposed to hold the part of the kernel
> definitions that glibc (and mayby the attr package) uses. If they happen
> to have their own copy now should not impct the decision what is part of
> the userspace interface for the kernel. So actual usage does not decide
> what is part of the userspace kernel headers but what definitionas are
> definitions the userspace <-> kernel interface.
glibc, or another libc.
Basically, the kernel should be able to export the things that userspace
needs to be able to correctly speak the ABI.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-26 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-23 18:43 include/linux/xattr.h: how much userpace visible? Adrian Bunk
2006-07-23 19:26 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-07-23 22:57 ` Nathan Scott
2006-07-24 18:31 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2006-07-24 18:45 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-07-24 18:58 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-26 23:29 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-02-26 23:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-26 23:43 ` David Miller
2007-02-26 23:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-27 0:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-27 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-02-27 1:49 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-02-27 2:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
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