Re: [PATCH] Make <linux/personality.h> userspace proof

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:24:33AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:55:26PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > <linux/personality.h> contains the constants for personality(2) but also
> > some defintions that are useless or even harmful in userspace such as
> > the personality() macro.
> 
> NACK.  glibc has a <sys/personality.h> for that.  It's been there since
> at least glibc 2.3.

And I ran over this on a glibc 2.2 system ...

  Ralf
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