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

Arjan van de Ven
2003-10-01T08:56:34Z

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On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:48, Paul Rolland wrote:
> 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 ?
this is absolutely not allowed to happen. It's not allowed to break the
userspace ABI like this!

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