From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>
Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Personality
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:36:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020716123632.B17038@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D33DAB2.353A4399@mips.com>; from carstenl@mips.com on Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:34:58AM +0200
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> The include/linux/personality.h file has changed between the 2.4.3 and
> the 2.4.18 kernel.
> Now there is a define of personality (#define personality(pers) (pers &
> PER_MASK), but that breaks things for the users, if they include this
> file.
> The user wishes to call the glibc personality function (which do the
> syscall), and not use the above definition.
>
> So I guess we need a "#ifdef __KERNEL__" around some of the code in
> include/linux/personality.h (at least around the define of personality),
> which then has to go into the glibc kernel header files.
The general policy about such problems is to not use kernel include files
from user applications directly. Hjl - maybe time for <sys/personality.h>?
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-16 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-16 8:34 Personality Carsten Langgaard
2002-07-16 10:36 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
[not found] ` <20020716090728.A22128@lucon.org>
2002-07-16 19:16 ` PATCH: Add sys/personality (Re: Personality) Carsten Langgaard
[not found] ` <20020716190814.A31309@lucon.org>
2002-07-17 7:14 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-07-16 13:40 ` Personality Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-16 13:57 ` Personality Carsten Langgaard
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