Re: ELF: what should be part of the userspace headers?

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Sat Aug 05 2006 - 07:07:51 EST


On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 13:05 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> include/linux/elf-em.h is used by include/linux/audit.h, but this usage
> doesn't seem to be part of the kernel <-> userspace interface?

The machine types _are_ part of the audit kernel<->userspace interface,
I think. Exporting elf-em.h should be fairly harmless.

> And which part of the ELF headers is part of the kernel <-> userspace
> interface?

Almost none of them, I'd suggest. Nothing but auxvec.h

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dwmw2

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