Re: [PATCH 6/7] remove all remaining _syscallX macros

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On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:00:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > This would only be required if you'd upgrade the userspace kernel
> > headers on this system to a version not matching the ones glibc was
> > built against - and this has never been considered a good idea
> > (it should work in theory, but not with our current header mess).
> 
> Sorry, but that's just utterly wrong. It has always worked. The kernel ABI
> is stable on this level.

In this area, the ABI is much more stable than the API.

Try compiling glibc-2.0.1 with 2.6.17 kernel headers...

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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