From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc
Date: 20 May 2003 15:10:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bae940$2m5$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200305200111.h4K1BJPc026622@turing-police.cc.vt.edu
Followup to: <200305200111.h4K1BJPc026622@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
By author: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > For a lot of system calls it is actively dangerous to assume dev_t ==
> > __kernel_dev_t. As glibc does some cute things in there.
>
> I thought that sort of fun and games was *WHY* userspace can't use the
> kernel headers in the first place?
>
Indeed. Because they try to export dev_t, not __kernel_dev_t (unless
you know exactly what you're doing, which most people don't.)
dev_t should be defined by the library ABI, not by the kernel ABI.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-20 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-18 20:21 Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-18 20:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-18 21:12 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-19 5:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19 10:43 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-19 10:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-19 11:14 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-19 11:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-19 11:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-19 11:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19 12:52 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-19 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-19 22:44 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-19 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-19 22:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-19 23:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-20 6:06 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-19 11:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19 12:56 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-19 13:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19 16:56 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-05-19 17:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-19 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-19 22:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-19 22:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-19 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-19 23:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-05-20 10:35 ` Lionel Elie Mamane
2003-05-19 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-19 23:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-19 23:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-19 23:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-20 0:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-20 0:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-20 1:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-05-20 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-05-20 0:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-20 0:54 ` David Woodhouse
2003-05-20 1:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-20 1:42 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-20 4:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-20 4:24 ` Miles Bader
2003-05-20 6:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-20 7:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-20 19:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-20 7:44 ` Riley Williams
2003-05-20 14:01 ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-20 17:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-21 4:39 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-21 5:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-21 5:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-19 18:05 ` David Ford
2003-05-19 17:44 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-20 2:21 ` David Ford
2003-05-19 18:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19 17:59 ` David Ford
2003-05-19 18:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-19 18:23 ` David Ford
2003-05-19 18:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-19 19:43 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-05-19 21:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-05-19 21:35 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-05-19 21:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-19 19:54 Mudama, Eric
2003-05-19 20:36 ` Martin Schlemmer
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