Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jun 1998 16:30:41 -0400 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: Header files and interfaces |
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Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> wrote: > In some cases, ioctls are being replaced in an incompatible way. > This is for example the case of network firewalling which has changed > at least twice in this way. And in such cases, the includes cannot > contain definitions of all such mechanisms as they are mutually > exclusive, but you occasionally need (well, at least I do) to build > programs using different version of that API to the one you currently > run.
If the kernel doesn't allow for reasonable run-time handling of such issues, that's a kernel problem. [But I think it's fair to treat development kernels with wierd, no-longer supported options as if those options didn't exist.]
Which is to say: I'm not convinced.
> Yes, but then I can either install new headers or run a script > which generates them. But I should be able to do this without > rebuilding or reinstalling (g)libc.
Fine by me.
-- Raul
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