From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: glibc compiling with kernel 2.5.70-bk17
Date: 18 Jun 2003 23:16:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bcrkf0$dsf$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3EF12031.8020709@hereintown.net
Followup to: <3EF12031.8020709@hereintown.net>
By author: Chris Meadors <clubneon@hereintown.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Your first comment is something I had wondered about for a while. A
> stable set of userspace kernel headers. That would be nice. Of course
> changes could be made to reflect new kernel interfaces. So they should
> still be distributed with the kernel source. Then glibc could be
> compiled against those updates, and the headers installed as the system
> default. But it wouldn't be so forbidden for userspace to touch them.
>
Yes, this is the "ABI headers" project that has been discussed
extensively on this list. It's pretty important, but unlikely to
happen in time for 2.6.
-hpa
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-19 1:17 glibc compiling with kernel 2.5.70-bk17 Riccardo-Maria Bianchi
2003-06-19 1:23 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-06-19 2:30 ` Chris Meadors
2003-06-19 6:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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