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Re: [PATCH] libc-compat.h for <bits/fcntl-linux.h>
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Cc: Eric Neblock <ceneblock at member dot fsf dot org>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 15:06:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] libc-compat.h for <bits/fcntl-linux.h>
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Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> writes:
> Rather than this approach, why not have the glibc header include the
> uapi header and rely on its definitions? This might need to be
> conditional on a sufficiently new version of the uapi header being
> available, but it is more future-proof.
The kernel header cannot be used due to lack of name space sanity.
Andreas.
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