Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 08:13:05PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:In the long term I think we want to drop page.h and elf.h from the list of files which are exported to userspace altogether.elf.h shouldn't be exported to userspace at all. there's a separate incarnation of elf.h in userland, so anyone importing the kernel one is plain stupid.
Keep in mind that userland isn't necessarily glibc. In particular, for klibc it would be a pain in the arse to have two largely identical copies of the same header file in the kernel tree.
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