Re: Redefinition error while compiling LKM

["pretorious ." <pretorious_i@hotmail.com>]

> and.. why on earth would you need sys/syscall.h ?? (or sys/stat.h for
> that matter)

Trying to override certain syscalls (mknod ...)

> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
> To: "pretorious ." <pretorious_i@hotmail.com>
> CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Redefinition error while compiling LKM
> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:02:09 +0100
>
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:21 +0530, pretorious . wrote:
> > hi!
> >    I am facing problem in compiling an LKM. It seems Inclusion of
> > <sys/stat.h> conflicts with definitions in time.h.
> >
> >
> > My linux kernal version is 2.4.21-4.EL
> >
> >
> > #include <linux/kernel.h>
> > #include <linux/module.h>
> >
> > #if CONFIG_MODVERSIONS==1
> > #define MODVERSIONS
> > #include <linux/modversions.h>
> > #endif
>
> this is broken btw
> >
> > #ifndef KERNEL_VERSION
> > #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) ((a)*65536+(b)*256+(c))
> > #endif
> >
> > #include <linux/slab.h>
> > #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> > #include <sys/syscall.h>
> >
> > #include <sys/stat.h>
>
>
> you cannot use glibc headers in kernel modules. anything in sys/ is a
> glibc header.
>
> and.. why on earth would you need sys/syscall.h ?? (or sys/stat.h for
> that matter)

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