Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:52:31 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ppp-2.2f/2.3.x, glibc 2, and Linux 2.x |
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>> Why did glibc abandon asm/string.h? > > For many reasons. To keep the namespace clean for ISO C, > POSIX, XPG4. To decouple the libc's types from the kernel, > as we plan on making some changes underneath the hood. > >> pppd _REQUIRES_ linux/pppd.h amongst others [some flags >> not present in glibc]. > > What pppd requires (if more than the <net/*.h> headers, > and it would seem not from the 2.3.x success report!), > is its own copy of whatever it thinks it ought to be > getting from the kernel.
That is not a general solution because kernel header files may vary by architecture. What do you expect the app to do, keep an arch directory of its own?
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