Re: glibc compiling with kernel 2.5.70-bk17
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
18 Jun 2003 23:16:00 -0700
Followup to: <3EF12031.8020709@hereintown.net>
By author: Chris Meadors <clubneon@hereintown.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Your first comment is something I had wondered about for a while. A
> stable set of userspace kernel headers. That would be nice. Of course
> changes could be made to reflect new kernel interfaces. So they should
> still be distributed with the kernel source. Then glibc could be
> compiled against those updates, and the headers installed as the system
> default. But it wouldn't be so forbidden for userspace to touch them.
>
Yes, this is the "ABI headers" project that has been discussed
extensively on this list. It's pretty important, but unlikely to
happen in time for 2.6.
-hpa
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