From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263879AbUECUGv (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 16:06:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263881AbUECUGv (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 16:06:51 -0400 Received: from box.punkt.pl ([217.8.180.66]:24334 "HELO box.punkt.pl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263879AbUECUG1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 16:06:27 -0400 From: Mariusz Mazur To: Christoph Hellwig , "Kevin P. Fleming" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.5.1 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 22:05:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200405030111.49802.mmazur@kernel.pl> <40969C87.4060804@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <20040503203156.A14171@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040503203156.A14171@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405032205.46882.mmazur@kernel.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On pon 3. maja 2004 21:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 12:24:55PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > > Mariusz' headers work really well; there are people building complete > > systems (X/KDE/GNOME/etc.) using them without any difficulties at this > > point. > > The thing is they're still conceptually wrong. Glibc should provide > working and full-featured networking headers. Or should have a mechanism for linux headers to provide them in a clean way (which is probably a better option since glibc will always lack behind linux' functionality). Either way it's not in my power to introduce the proper fix. Care to do The Right Thing (tm)? :) -- In the year eighty five ten God is gonna shake his mighty head He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been" Or tear it down, and start again