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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> So the rigt answer is to do both: make sure that people don't use kernel 
> headers, but also try to keep them reasonably clean.

strace is kind of special, since it needs to operate very close to the
kernel (interpreting syscall arguments below all libc wrappers).

Andreas.

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