Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:31:10 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.5.2.7: io.h cleanup and userspace nudge |
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Jeff Garzik writes: > Dave Jones wrote: > > > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > > #ifndef __KERNEL__ > > > > #error This file should not be included by userspace. > > > > #endif > > > I thought about it, but then the tree would be littered with that all > > > over the place. Programmers are smart enough to figure this out (I hope > > > :)) > > > > I doubt you'd need it in that many places. A few well chosen ones should > > probably suffice. > > oh, if Linus would apply it, I would love to see the above code in > asm/types.h or linux/kernel.h or similarly popular headers. > > But... my patch is merely a small step, a "nudge" as I mentioned. I > don't want to annhilate the glibc developers with a sudden task, just a > nudge :)
Please test this change on a libc5 system before unleashing a potential horror. All the world *is not* glibc!
Regards,
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