From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: modify_ldt_ldt_s vs. user_desc (Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] UML (unofficial) patches against vanilla 2.6.2)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:59:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040213135929.GA27460@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040213071536.GJ19147@alcor.net>
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:15:36PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> I don't suppose there would be much harm in adding a macro to ldt.h so that
> existing software could continue to work, but that change belongs in the
> kernel.
The policy as I understand it has always been that userland needs its
own headers, and that kernel headers are not meant to be usable by
applications unmodified.
Looks like a debian bug to me....
--Bruce Fields
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-05 20:07 [uml-devel] UML (unofficial) patches against vanilla 2.6.2 BlaisorBlade
2004-02-05 21:54 ` [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] " Net Llama!
2004-02-07 16:45 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-02-05 23:01 ` Jeff Dike
2004-02-13 5:23 ` Jeff Dike
2004-02-13 7:15 ` modify_ldt_ldt_s vs. user_desc (Re: [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] UML (unofficial) patches against vanilla 2.6.2) Matt Zimmerman
2004-02-13 13:59 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2004-02-14 14:14 ` BlaisorBlade
2004-02-14 14:45 ` [uml-devel] Re: [uml-user] UML (unofficial) patches against vanilla 2.6.2 BlaisorBlade
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