Re: [BUG?] vtund broken by tun driver changes in 2.4.6

Joerg Reuter
2001-07-13T17:43:36Z

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:58:52AM -0700, Maksim Krasnyanskiy wrote:

> Ioctls were defined _without_ IOW macros. And that was ugly. That's why I redifened them.
> So, if you recompile everything will be fine.

So you break binary compatibilty within a _stable_ kernel release just
for the sake of beauty? Besides, this does not only affect VTUND but
also other applications like Hercules. Just recompiling Hercules doesn't
help here anyway, because it (rightfully) refuses to include kernel
headers but (due to the lack of net/if_tun.h within glibc) constructs
the IOCTL command on its own.

> > And BTW, you shouldn't include kernel headers from user space programs, should you.
> That rule doesn't apply here.

Can you tell me why it does not apply here? Just because you happen to
be the author of both the driver (which is, without doubt, very
valuable) and _one_ of several applications using it?

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