Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262407AbTESLdA (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 07:33:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262412AbTESLc7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 07:32:59 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([195.224.96.167]:55313 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262407AbTESLc7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 07:32:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 12:45:39 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Martin Schlemmer Cc: Christoph Hellwig , William Lee Irwin III , KML Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc Message-ID: <20030519124539.B8868@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Martin Schlemmer , William Lee Irwin III , KML References: <1053289316.10127.41.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20030518204956.GB8978@holomorphy.com> <1053292339.10127.45.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20030519063813.A30004@infradead.org> <1053341023.9152.64.camel@workshop.saharact.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1053341023.9152.64.camel@workshop.saharact.lan>; from azarah@gentoo.org on Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:43:44PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 684 Lines: 15 On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:43:44PM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > Ok, lets say we stop doing that. How do anything user side find > out specifics at compile time related to the kernel it should run > on ? They don't. You can run the same userspace on a wide range of kernels. I'd just leave the job of selcting your headers to the distro vendor - if they are too stupid to get their headers sanitized I'd just use a different distro. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/