Re: kernel headers & userland

[Alan Cox]

> Apparently Linus told Felix von Leitner (the author of dietlibc - a small,
> no nonsense glibc replacement C library) a while ago _not_ to include any
> linux kernel headers in userland (i.e. the C library headers in this case).

Did Felix make clear that it was a library he was talking about ?

> In short, there is simply too many things that will break if you don't
> include linux kernel headers in the C library headers (just look at glibc
> for instance).

Absolutely. But the main issue is applications. I certainly have no problem
with glibc using kernel header copies. Its when they leak into generic apps
directly it gets ugly

(And note glibc uses copies..)