Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: what is net-pf-17? | Date | Fri, 06 Aug 1999 17:06:45 +0100 | From | Philip Blundell <> |
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>I know that one is kernel-internal and one is userspace. Thanks for >pointing out its renaming, I was not aware of this. Why is this >information not combined and put in /usr/include/net/socket.h where >both domains can see it? It is shared information.
The /usr/include/net directory is not shared between kernel and libc on modern systems.
It would be possible to split those definitions out into a new <linux/something> header from where both linux/socket.h and bits/socket.h could use them, but that would introduce extra versioning interdependencies between kernel and libc, and to be honest it doesn't hurt all that much to maintain two copies.
p.
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