Re: linux-nfs-0.4.21 for Alpha glibc
Olaf Kirch (okir@lst.de)
Mon, 29 Dec 1997 10:10:31 +0100
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 10:58:30PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> The rule of thumb when writing code for glibc is to avoid including
> any kernel
> headers - if you need definitions that are only found in the kernel headers
> then you should duplicate them in your own code (hopefully there aren't too
> many). This is a bit of a pain sometimes, but it's a cleaner solution than
> trying to patch up all the kernel headers to make them safe to include (which
> is often hard without breaking some libc5 application along the way).
I will release a clean set of user-land include files once the kernel
API for NFS mounts and knfsd is stable.
Olaf
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