Bug#480093: sys/user.h broken on (at least) hppa

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:16:38AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Package: libc6-dev
> Version: 2.7-10
> Severity: important
> 
> On HPPA sys/user.h only contains "#include <linux/user.h>"
> which doesn't do anything useful since linux-libc-dev doesn't
> contain user.h (except on arm/armel for whatever reason).
> 
> On i386 sys/user.h actually contains something useful.

Just curious, but what breaks?

<sys/user.h> is a somewhat dodgy header; most software should not be
using it.  Also, its contents are completely platform-dependent.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery