Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:56:02 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc
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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.

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I would rather have real exportable ABI headers, yes. We don't have
>> them and AFAIK sanitized copies are the current policy.

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 03:46:01PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Unfortunately "the current policy" is unrealistic, and repeating it
> doesn't make it any less so.

No contest there; unfortunately unrealistic amounts of work seem to
be required to get around the general state of affairs at times. =(
Does it really have to be 2.7? It seems most of this would be header
reorganization with no runtime impact on the kernel.

-- wli
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