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From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: glibc compiling with kernel 2.5.70-bk17
Date18 Jun 2003 23:16:00 -0700
Followup to:  <3EF12031.8020709@hereintown.net>
By author:    Chris Meadors <clubneon@hereintown.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Your first comment is something I had wondered about for a while. A 
> stable set of userspace kernel headers. That would be nice.  Of course 
> changes could be made to reflect new kernel interfaces.  So they should 
> still be distributed with the kernel source.  Then glibc could be 
> compiled against those updates, and the headers installed as the system 
> default.  But it wouldn't be so forbidden for userspace to touch them.
> 

Yes, this is the "ABI headers" project that has been discussed
extensively on this list.  It's pretty important, but unlikely to
happen in time for 2.6.

	-hpa
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