Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:26:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | Derrick J Brashear <> | Subject | Re: OFFTOPIC: e2fsprogs and +2Gb partitions |
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> The point is that there is _NO_ point in not just copying over the header > files, and using the copies.
As a kernel-aware(*) application developer I would not want to have to ship every possible version of every kernel header I wanted to use with something when I've written my program to optionally take advantage of new kernel functionality when it was available. Nor would i want to rely on the user having the headers available if an environment has been created where there is generally no need to do so. Even if they did, I'd have to guess where the headers were.
* Consider applications which issue certain SCSI commands, for instance, cdda readers... Writing for sg isn't portable, but SCSI_IOCTL_PASS_THRU, would you believe, is.
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