On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 04:48:08PM +0300, Moni Shoua wrote: > > > > I'm not sure this is a good idea, linux/in.h should not be included in > > userspace users of this file, 'sockaddr_in' needs to come from glibc's > > 'netinet/in.h' instead.. > Is it wrong to include include/uapi/linux/in.h from userspace? Generally speaking userspace should always use the glibc version of the headers and not headers from under linux/ Even if it is OK to include both today, that may not be true as glibc or the kernel changes, and we end up with broken builds. For instance look at this commit for a real problem caused by mixing net/if.h and linux/if.h: commit dc386fcf4a6d5dc0cc0052437c1cb161b7781592 Author: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 14 12:04:42 2016 -0600 verbs: Use cmake to detect if net/if.h vs netling/route/link.h is broken If not then just use the header directly, otherwise use the work around. The issue is that old libnl libraries include linux/if.h and the declarations there conflict with net/if.h. New libraries do not do this. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html