Re: [PATCH] y2038: fix socket.h header inclusion

[Florian Weimer]

* Arnd Bergmann:

> diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h
> index 0d0fddb7e738..976e89b116e5 100644
> --- a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h
> +++ b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h
> @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
>  #ifndef _UAPI_ASM_SOCKET_H
>  #define _UAPI_ASM_SOCKET_H
>  
> +#include <linux/posix_types.h>
>  #include <asm/sockios.h>
> -#include <asm/bitsperlong.h>

This breaks POSIX conformance in glibc because the
<linux/posix_types.h> header is not namespace clean.  It contains the
identifiers fds_bits and val:

	unsigned long fds_bits[__FD_SETSIZE / (8 * sizeof(long))];

        int     val[2];

We could duplicate some of the SO_* constants for POSIX mode in glibc,
but it would be nice to avoid that.

Is there a different way of fixing this on the kernel side that avoids
including <linux/posix_types.h>?