[patch] scrub non-__GLIBC__ checks in linux/socket.h and linux/stat.h

["Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>]

On 11/30/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
> but there are a few other
> cases which still contain compound preprocessor directives such as:
>
>   #if defined(__KERNEL__) || !defined(__GLIBC__) || (__GLIBC__ < 2)
>
> having never worked with unifdef before, i guess i was being overly
> optimistic in thinking that it, if i "unifdef"ed __KERNEL__, it might
> at least simplify the expression.  oh, well ... live and learn.

userspace should be worrying about userspace, so having the socket.h
and stat.h pollute the namespace in the non-glibc case is wrong and
pretty much prevents any other libc from utilizing these headers
sanely unless they set up the __GLIBC__ define themselves (which
sucks)
-mike

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