Re: xattr.h wonkiness
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi, would a simple patchl ike this to misc/sys/xattr.h be
> acceptable? This showed up in a failure to build (of at least
> qemu, and aiui lots of other pkgs) after merging a new libcap2
> where sys/capability.h #included linux/xattr.h. It's being
> worked around by patching libcap2 to #include sys/xattr.h
> first, but presumably this will cause other breakages.
Please follow the accepted practice for fixing coordination between
userspace and Linux kernel headers.
Upstream glibc and the Linux kernel have already worked out a
mechanical solution to this problem, and we need people to work out
the patches and post them upstream.
The solution is to coordinate the conflicting headers following this template:
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Synchronizing_Headers
Cheers,
Carlos.
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