Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030570AbWCTWwh (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:52:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030573AbWCTWwh (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:52:37 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:38078 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030570AbWCTWwg (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:52:36 -0500 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:52:32 +0100 From: Matthias Andree To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Jeff Garzik , joe.korty@ccur.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.16 Message-ID: <20060320225232.GA30981@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Linus Torvalds , Jan Engelhardt , Jeff Garzik , joe.korty@ccur.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20060320171905.GA4228@tsunami.ccur.com> <441EFCB0.6020007@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1259 Lines: 33 On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > > > strace should be using sanitized versions of the kernel headers, not directly > > > including them verbatim... > > > > > Now, would not it be good for everyone if the in-kernel headers get > > every bit of sanitation? > > Yes, we should strive for fairly sanitized headers. That said, Jeff is > also right - people really generally shouldn't use the kernel headers > directly. It appears this message hasn't spread wide enough yet. When reporting an inotify-related build failure, I heard back from the GNOMES I shouldn't be using outdated glibc headers but kernel headers instead... apparently there's more need for discussion. (Not that I'd find gamin particularly sensible, since it's undocumented, and attracted WAY too much attention because of its flaws like SIGSEGV in applications, 100% CPU loops and other shortcomings not only in Linux environments, but also on FreeBSD.) -- Matthias Andree - 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/