On 3/6/06, Olivier Galibert <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 04:55:02PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > Userspace apps should not include kernel headers, period.
> > So, userspace applications really shouldn't care.
>
> Please excuse me if I'm a little dense here, but the kernel headers
> _define_ the userspace-kernel interface. If you don't have them or a
> sanitized copy of them you just can't talk with the kernel at all.
>
Well, stuff like glibc, the alsa lib etc are exceptions, but the
exceptions are few and far between.
Random userspace apps should not use the kernel headers directly, they
should instead talk to things like glibc and let glibc handle the
userspace<->kernel bit.
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