From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261809AbVGFRvQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:51:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262364AbVGFRvP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:51:15 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:28835 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261835AbVGFNNh (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 09:13:37 -0400 Subject: Re: PROBLEM: please remove reserved word "new" from kernel headers From: David Woodhouse To: Rob Prowel Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050706092657.95280.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050706092657.95280.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:14:24 +0100 Message-Id: <1120655664.19467.271.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 (2.2.2-5) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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