Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:29:58 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: include/linux/xattr.h: how much userpace visible? |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > The userspace headers are supposed to hold the part of the kernel > definitions that glibc (and mayby the attr package) uses. If they happen > to have their own copy now should not impct the decision what is part of > the userspace interface for the kernel. So actual usage does not decide > what is part of the userspace kernel headers but what definitionas are > definitions the userspace <-> kernel interface.
glibc, or another libc.
Basically, the kernel should be able to export the things that userspace needs to be able to correctly speak the ABI.
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