Re: Official Linux system wrapper library?

Randy Dunlap
2018-11-12T18:14:34Z

On 11/12/18 10:09 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Greg KH wrote:
>
>> If there are still problems with this, please let us know and we will be
>> glad to resolve them.
>
> With headers installed from Linus's latest tree, I retried (for x86_64)
> the case of a source file containing the single line
>
> #include <linux/elfcore.h>
>
> which (as previously discussed, and Arnd had an RFC patch) I want to use
> in a glibc test of header consistency. It gives errors "unknown type name
> 'elf_greg_t'" etc. (for lots more types as well) - but even before getting
> onto those errors, there's
>
> asm/signal.h:127:2: error: unknown type name 'size_t'
>
> from a header included from linux/elfcore.h. So this doesn't seem to be
> working as I'd expect yet.

Yes, someone from Google (iirc) and also David Howells had some tests
that would point out all of the problems. I thought (expected) more follow-up
from them with patches...

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~Randy