Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 May 2003 15:46:01 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:14:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>This "cure" sucks worse than the disease. Now you're putting it onto >>everyone who maintains userspace to do the same repetitive task of >>"sanitizing" this. Especially for things this trivial, this is a >>ridiculous concept. >>For 2.7, getting real exportable ABI headers is so bloody necessary >>it's not even funny. However, for 2.5, breaking things randomly is >>not the way to go. > > I would rather have real exportable ABI headers, yes. We don't have > them and AFAIK sanitized copies are the current policy. >
Unfortunately "the current policy" is unrealistic, and repeating it doesn't make it any less so.
-hpa
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