Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 1999 19:12:35 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: linux headers and C++ |
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allbery@kf8nh.apk.net wrote: > | But why disallow a third-party kernel-space application from using C++ > | if they want to? We're not talking about the kernel, we're talking > | about third-party code that will never be part of the kernel. > > It it's in kernel-space, how is it not part of the kernel? (License > issues aside; they aren't relevant to the discussion.)
I don't understand your question.
So I'll explain what I mean. The code runs in kernel space. It is derived from user-space C++ work.
It's never expected to become part of the kernel distribution. So why should it be constrained by the kernel group's idea of good style?
-- Jamie
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