On 13 June 2010 14:31, vikas chauhan <presentisgood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I guess these headers ( in /usr/include/linux ) are sanitized kernel headers, needed for compiling user space applications.On 13 June 2010 11:48, Siddu <siddu.sjce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I'm sorry I misread your question. I guess the correct reason would be
>> I see in my system (Ubuntu Hardy) that linux header files are at two places
>>
>> 1. siddu@siddu-desktop:/usr/include$ find
>> /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/build/include/linux/ | wc -l
>> 850
>
> These headers are for compiling kernel code
>
>>
>> 2. siddu@siddu-desktop:/usr/include$ find /usr/include/linux/ | wc -l
>> 523
>
> These are userspace development header files used for programs
> accessing libc and other libraries. Usually packages ending with
> "-dev" in ubuntu repositories install files into this location.
>
/build/include/linux has a lot of header files that userspace programs
wouldn't need and are internal to the kernel.
Thanks for the reply!
but then what is the need for /usr/include/linux/*.h files ?thanks,
Joel
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