From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Rob Prowel <tempest766@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: please remove reserved word "new" from kernel headers
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:14:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1120655664.19467.271.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050706092657.95280.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com>
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 02:26 -0700, Rob Prowel wrote:
> While not an error, per se, it is kind of sloppy and
> it is amazing that it hasn't shown up before now.
> using the identifier "new" in kernel headers that are
> visible to applications programs is a bad idea.
It _is_ an error, on mysql's part. The kernel headers are _not_ intended
to be visible to applications, in the general case. Why is mysql
including this header?
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-06 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-06 9:26 Rob Prowel
2005-07-06 12:56 ` Jurriaan on adsl-gate
2005-07-06 12:58 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-07-06 13:06 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-07-06 18:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-07-06 13:14 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-07-06 14:05 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-07-06 14:43 ` Michal Schmidt
2005-07-06 15:35 ` Schneelocke
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