Re: problem with <asm/semaphore.h>

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

liangbowen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I compiled the following code with gcc under FC2 :
> 
> #include <asm/semaphore.h>
> main()
> {
>     struct semaphore sum;
> 
> }
> 
> It doesn't compile, saying "storage size of `sem'
> isn't known".
> 
> and I looked inside asm/semaphore.h, I saw:
> #ifndef I386_SEMAPHORE_H
> #define I386_SEMAPHORE_H
> 
> #include <linux/linkage.h>
> 
> #endif
> 
> Did I missed something? Please guide me how to fix it.
> 
> Sincerely

You're trying to use a kernel data structure in a user-space program. 
Don't. The definitions in that header are inside #ifdef __KERNEL__ and 
so the provided userspace headers remove that part.

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