Re: Kernel header policy

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12.07.2005 20:38, Jim Nance wrote/a écrit:


Perhaps a little history would help.  In the beginning, the kernel was
written with the intention that userland would be including the headers.
And libc did include the kernel headers.

This did provide an effective way to get new kernel features to show
up in userland, but it created all sorts of other problems.  Eventually
it was decided/decreed that userland would NOT include kernel headers.
Instead, libc would provide a set of headers which would either be
compatable, or would marshel data into the form the kernel wanted.

So does this mean that all the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" are useless or are they still used?

Eric
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