Re: disallow direct inclussion of <linux/*.h>

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:35:31PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 07:13:32PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:05:13PM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > I think we should disallow direct inclusion of <linux/*.h> in Glibc, any
> > > comments?
> > 
> > There don't exist any <linux/*.h> headers in glibc, they come from
> > Linux.
> 
> IIRC, Glibc build process takes them from specified location and installs them
> in /usr/include/linux/.
> 
> So there's room to apply some patches.

No they don't. Some distribution put those headers in a package called
glibc, but glibc itself doesn't do anything with them (except using it
in the glibc code itself of course).

Jeroen Dekkers