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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, axboe@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel bug report (includes fix)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 00:17:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040810051747.GC5414@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408091420.i79EKBEu010574@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de>

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:20:11PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> 
> >> As you don't know how kernel/user interfaces are handled, it would be wise for 
> >> you to keep quiet.....
> 
> >Linux kernel include files are not meant to be used by user
> >applications. He's perfectly correct. Glibc has its own exported set.
> >This is intentional to seperate internals from user space.
> 
> You should know that GLIBc is unrelated to the Linux kernel interfaces we are> talking about. Start using serious arguments please.

If you had any inkling, you'd have caught on by now that using kernel
headers in userspace programs has been deprecated for about six years.

They don't compile in userspace because it's not supported. Phased
out, outmoded, obsolete, passe, renounced, defunct, disused,
abandoned. The plumage doesn't enter into it. It's stone dead.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-10  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-09 14:20 Linux Kernel bug report (includes fix) Joerg Schilling
2004-08-09 15:50 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-08-10  5:17 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-08-10  9:24 ` Helge Hafting
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-11 11:49 Joerg Schilling
2004-08-10 12:34 Joerg Schilling
2004-08-10 16:24 ` Jim Gifford
2004-08-12 15:35   ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-09 12:03 Joerg Schilling
2004-08-09 13:05 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-10 22:58 ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-07 12:51 Joerg Schilling
2004-08-07 13:26 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-08-07 19:32   ` Bernd Schubert
2004-08-08  1:18 ` Horst von Brand
2004-08-08  5:22   ` Alexander E. Patrakov

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