Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263025AbTESWbh (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 18:31:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263171AbTESWbh (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 18:31:37 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:39401 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263025AbTESWbg (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2003 18:31:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:44:14 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc Message-ID: <20030519224414.GG8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1053289316.10127.41.camel@nosferatu.lan> <20030519063813.A30004@infradead.org> <1053341023.9152.64.camel@workshop.saharact.lan> <20030519105152.GD8978@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1229 Lines: 27 Followup to: <20030519105152.GD8978@holomorphy.com> By author: William Lee Irwin III In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel >> 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. On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:14:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > This "cure" sucks worse than the disease. Now you're putting it onto > everyone who maintains userspace to do the same repetitive task of > "sanitizing" this. Especially for things this trivial, this is a > ridiculous concept. > For 2.7, getting real exportable ABI headers is so bloody necessary > it's not even funny. However, for 2.5, breaking things randomly is > not the way to go. I would rather have real exportable ABI headers, yes. We don't have them and AFAIK sanitized copies are the current policy. -- wli - 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/