Bug#538372: [PATCH] net: Support inclusion of <linux/socket.h> before <sys/socket.h>
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:42:44 +0100
> From: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
>
> The following user-space program fails to compile:
>
> #include <linux/socket.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> int main() { return 0; }
>
> The reason is that <linux/socket.h> tests __GLIBC__ to decide whether it
> should define various structures and macros that are now defined for
> user-space by <sys/socket.h>, but __GLIBC__ is not defined if no libc
> headers have yet been included.
>
> It seems safe to drop support for libc 5 now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fair enough, applied to net-2.6, thanks.
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