Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | | Date | Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:31:05 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: Linux kernel headers violate RFC2553 |
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Felix von Leitner writes: > Thus spake David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com): > > Don't user kernel headers for userspace. > > What choice do I have?
I didn't say anything about choice, I said "don't use kernel headers for userspace". What part of it do you not understand.
It was decided long ago that keeping the kernel headers up to snuff with "user space standard of the day" was not in our interests, so we don't have "#if _POSIX == 19940XXX" type crap all over the kernel headers.
In fact, in some headers the structures and names are purposely not what userspace wants. In this way nobody is likely to get the ill conception that they are meant in any way to be used by userspace.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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