Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

From: Erik Andersen
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 08:41:54 EST


On Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 11:00:16PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> A while ago there was a big discussion about splitting out the
> userspace-accessible portions of the kernel headers into a separate
> directory, "kabi", "kernel-abi", "linux-abi", or a half-dozen other
> suggestions. Linus sprinkled a bit of holy-penguin-pee on the idea,
> but nothing ever really happened after that.

Have you seen the linux-libc-headers:
http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/
which, while not an official part of the kernel, do a pretty
good job...

-Erik

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