On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > The include/linux/personality.h file has changed between the 2.4.3 and > the 2.4.18 kernel. > Now there is a define of personality (#define personality(pers) (pers & > PER_MASK), but that breaks things for the users, if they include this > file. > The user wishes to call the glibc personality function (which do the > syscall), and not use the above definition. > > So I guess we need a "#ifdef __KERNEL__" around some of the code in > include/linux/personality.h (at least around the define of personality), > which then has to go into the glibc kernel header files. > > Any comments ? Why is the user program including <linux/personality.h> in the first place? The right thing to do here is to provide the necessary bits in a glibc header, probably in bits/personality.h or so. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
