From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263725AbUHJJV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:21:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262837AbUHJJV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:21:29 -0400 Received: from hermine.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:3078 "HELO hermine.aitel.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263725AbUHJJUo (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:20:44 -0400 Message-ID: <41189443.3040504@hist.no> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:24:19 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Schilling 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) References: <200408091420.i79EKBEu010574@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <200408091420.i79EKBEu010574@burner.fokus.fraunhofer.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joerg Schilling wrote: > >>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. > > The kernel headers are _still_ not meant to be used by userspace, so don't try that. If you don't want to use glibc headers - you get to write your own headers. You can extract info from the kernel headers, but they cannot be used directly from userspace programs. They are not designed to be used that way. Helge Hafting