Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc
From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 13:45, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok, so say they use LFS ?

Point is just that people like you keep on bitching about not
using sanitized kernel headers, but do nothing about it, or
until today have said nothing about 'sanitized headers'.


-- 
Martin Schlemmer


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