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SubjectRe: Horrible things with 1.3.78
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LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk writes:
> > 1. Avoid duplications.
> > 2. When kernel adds a new macro to a system call interface, there
> > is no need to recompile libc.
>
> The problems are the dependencies, and in particular the inclusion
> of version.h, which changes every time the kernel is recompiled,
> in many C compilations.

This may have been proposed earlier, but couldn't this be solved by the
kernel exporting `/proc/version.h', and libc could put a symlink to
that; whereas the kernel builds use `src/linux/include/version.h'.

This would probably require a different location than <linux/version.h>
as the right way for applications to get at the version info, but, would
solve the problem of not having kernel source around.

- Hari
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