Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
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To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 13:14, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 12:51, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>=20
> > IIRC you're supposed to use some sort of sanitized copy, not the things
> > directly. IMHO the current state of affairs sucks as there is no
> > standard set of ABI headers, but grabbing them right out of the kernel
> > is definitely not the way to go.
> >=20
>=20
> Ok, anybody know of an effort to get this done ?

Red Hat Linux ships with a mostly sanitized header set for this.
>=20
> Also, what about odd things that are more kernel dependant
> like imon support in fam for example ?  The imon.h will not
> be in the 'sanitized copy' ....

apps that have such deep knowledge about internals are supposed to
provide their own copy of the headers in RHL at least. But there are few
of those.

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