From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Felix von Leitner <leitner@fefe.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux kernel headers violate RFC2553
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:05:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15137.8668.590390.10485@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010608195719.A4862@fefe.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010608195719.A4862@fefe.de>
Felix von Leitner writes:
> glibc works around this, but the diet libc uses the kernel headers and
> thus exports the wrong API to user land.
Don't user kernel headers for userspace.
Kernel headers and user headers are distinctly different namespaces,
and you have pointed out only one of many places where we use
different names/structures/etc. for some kernel networking headers
vs. what userspace wants.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-08 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-08 17:57 Felix von Leitner
2001-06-08 19:05 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-06-08 19:12 ` Felix von Leitner
2001-06-08 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-08 23:06 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-06-08 21:31 ` David S. Miller
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