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

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Sat Dec 16, 2006 at 01:42:11PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > 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
>
> Ack from me.  I'd love to see this applied so uClibc could
> stop have to define __GLIBC__

klibc uses these definitions, but the right thing to do is to have libc 
ask for it:

#if defined(__KERNEL__) || defined(__EXPORT_LINUX_SOCKET_H)

/* ... */

#endif

That way, klibc can just

#define __EXPORT_LINUX_SOCKET_H
#include <linux/socket.h>

	-hpa
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