From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Header files and the kernel ABI
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:19:24 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020725181923.GA4858@codepoet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D4027DB.3090805@zytor.com>
On Thu Jul 25, 2002 at 09:31:23AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> >
> >Ideally, the ABI layer would be maintained and packaged separately from
> >both the kernel and glibc to avoid gratuitous changes from either side.
> >
>
> I disagree. The ABI is a product of the kernel and should be attached
> to it. It is *not* a product of glibc -- glibc is a consumer of it, as
> are any other libcs.
Agreed. I maintain a libc and I certainly do not want to
have to maintain the kernel ABI of the day headers. That
is clearly a job for the kernel.
-Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-25 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-25 6:28 Header files and the kernel ABI H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 6:51 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-07-25 7:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 7:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-07-25 16:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-07-25 16:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 18:19 ` Erik Andersen [this message]
2002-07-25 20:03 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-07-27 11:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-07-25 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 8:00 ` DervishD
2002-07-25 13:08 ` Brad Hards
2002-07-25 16:09 ` DervishD
2002-07-25 16:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-07-25 18:22 ` Erik Andersen
2002-07-31 21:37 ` Kernel ABI BoF at Linux-Kongress? [was: Header files and the kernel ABI] Brad Hards
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2002-07-25 21:13 Header files and the kernel ABI dank
2002-07-26 2:37 ` jw schultz
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