Re: [PATCH v06 30/36] uapi rdma/rdma_user_rxe.h: include in.h and in6.h

Dmitry V. Levin
2017-08-10T02:47:48Z

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On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:52:41AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 04:48:08PM +0300, Moni Shoua wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure this is a good idea, linux/in.h should not be included in
> > > userspace users of this file, 'sockaddr_in' needs to come from glibc's
> > > 'netinet/in.h' instead..
>
> > Is it wrong to include include/uapi/linux/in.h from userspace?
>
> Generally speaking userspace should always use the glibc version of
> the headers and not headers from under linux/

Sorry? Isn't the main idea of UAPI in providing the Linux interface for
userspace, unlike glibc headers that provide other more or less standard
interfaces like GNU, POSIX, etc?

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