Re: Don't know what to do!
Previously Dominik Kubla wrote:
> I am afraid i must disagree. True, Linus says the same, but that doesn't
> make it right.
It makes it right for Linux.
> Everything that interacts with the kernel interface (libc,
> quota, *fsck, ...) has to use the headers where that interface is
> declared.
No need to tell me, I've been dealing with that for years in strace
(which is even worse then others).
> Everything else is suspect: or would you like the have a
> vulnerabilty in your system because kernel defines object "foo" to have
> type "bar" while somebodies surrogate header defines it as "baz" where
> sizeof(bar) != sizeof(baz).
The kernel can't do that anyway, breaking the ABI would break lots of
userspace programs.
Wichert.
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