From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261842AbTJAKUT (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 06:20:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261761AbTJAKUT (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 06:20:19 -0400 Received: from [212.97.163.22] ([212.97.163.22]:54148 "EHLO aneto.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261842AbTJAKUN (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Oct 2003 06:20:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:20:01 +0200 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] linuxabi Message-ID: <20031001102001.GA3495@werewolf.able.es> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: (from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl on Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:01:23 +0200) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10.01, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Something we have talked about for a long time is > separating out from the kernel headers the parts > fit for inclusion in user space. > > This is a very large project, and it will take a long > time, especially if we want the user space headers to > be a pleasure to look at, instead of just a cut-n-paste > copy of whatever we find in the current headers. > > Some start is required, and the very first step is > making sure that you agree with the project. > Immediately following is the choice of directory names. > > Below > (i) a small textfile "linuxabi" describing the naming > (subdirectories linuxabi and linuxabi-alpha etc of include), Why not just 'abi' ? Simpler, and allows glibc to include just 'abi/xxxx' in other systems if they follow the same convention (BSD?) ? Where would this live in userspace, /usr/include/abi or /usr/include/linux/abi ? How would this relate to current /usr/include/linux (symlink /usr/include/linux to /usr/include/abi) ? Just curious. -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf!able!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.23-pre5-jam1 (gcc 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk))