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On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:56:24AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:43:37AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> > > >I concur, in fact we should really kill that thing off entirely.
> > > 
> > > I'm all for killing it off entirely but got some feedback that on  
> > > i386 segment.h can be included by userspace programs.
> > 
> > No kernel headers can be included by userland anymore.
> 
> I know nothing about <asm/segment.h> but this generic statement is
> simply not true.
> 
> There are perfectly valid uses of kernel headers from userspace.  For
> example if a program uses the netlink interface, it should include
> <linux/netlink.h>.  It's the interface definition after all.
> 
> Glibc headers also include <linux/*> and <asm/*> in quite few places.

But these files in /usr/include/ aren't provided by the kernel anymore.