Re: [PATCH] linux/inotify.h: do not include <linux/fcntl.h> in userspace

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:10:25AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >> What is the error message?
> > 
> > /usr/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h:117: error: redefinition of 'struct
> > flock'
> 
> And?  None of these programs should use <linux/inotify.h>.  There has
> for the longest time been a <sys/inotify.h> header which doesn't need
> any kernel headers.  In fact, <linux/inotify.h> should not be exported.

Even if userspace applications shouldn't use it directly this doesn't 
sound right:

We shouldn't force all libc implementations to copy the contents into a 
private header.

cu
Adrian

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