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DateWed, 17 Jun 1998 09:45:01 +0200
From"Stephen R. van den Berg" <>
SubjectRe: OFFTOPIC: e2fsprogs and +2Gb partitions
David S. Miller wrote:
>1) The latency from adding a new (for example) flag bit to
>   a structure and when user programs can actually get at it.

>2) The "just 'cp' it" argument is slightly parsimonious to me,
>   if we could just 'cp' it, we wouldn't have kernel header
>   file issues with glibc, changes do need to be made to make
>   them "libc friendly" or whatnot, and here is where errors
>   can be introduced

I guess, we now will need at least one new maintainer of a package called
"kernel->userland headers".  It, most likely, will be a collection of
sed and awk scripts (maybe perl) which will run through the kernel tree,
creating a clean userland-useable tree.
It should adapt automatically to minor additions (like extra defines or
structs), it needs manual adaptation whenever files move.
-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).

Real programmers don't just die, they produce core dumps.

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