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SubjectRe: [TRIVIAL] fix include/linux/sysctl.h for userland
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:52:35 +0200, Bernardo Innocenti said:
> > Include linux/compiler.h in include/linux/sysctl.h. Needed to get __user
> > defined when C library uses this header (ie: no __KERNEL__).

On Saturday 19 July 2003 20:01, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Umm... shouldn't this be in the glibc-kernheaders version of sysctl.h
> that ends up in /usr/include rather than the kernel version?

On Saturday 19 July 2003 19:59, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> It shouldn't be included from userspace, and glibc needs to be fixed not
> to do so.

Two reasons:

- I'm using uClibc, not glibc. uClibc doesn't have a fixed copy
of the kernel headers. Everything builds fine with real kernel
headers from both 2.4.x and 2.6.x, except for this small glitch.

- If we fix it now, the glibc guys will have one less patch to
apply when they update their copy.

The glibc-kernelheaders package exists only because the glibc
people cannot afford to work-around every single quirk in any
version of the kernel.

And if you often build system utilities you'll find out there is
quite a lot of userland code out there with legitimate reasons
for including kernel headers. Some examples: strace, nfsutils,
psutils, quota.

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