Re: Kernel includefile bug not fixed after a year :-(

Paul Rolland
2003-10-01T08:49:31Z

Hello,

> A classic recent example is iproute, which uses kernel headers
> all over the place. It compiled with earlier 2.4.x kernels, but
> it no longer compiles 2.4.22. I've not bothered to try and fix
> it, but if it included its own set of sanitized kernel headers,
> it would not have had a problem.

And if some IOCTLs were changed in between, in the kernel and
kernel headers ?
You end up with an application that you can compile, but doesn't
behave as expected ? What a progress :-(

Regards,
Paul

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