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Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] fcntl.h: add new definitions for file-private lock cmd values
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, linux-fsdevel at vger dot kernel dot org
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:50:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] fcntl.h: add new definitions for file-private lock cmd values
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> writes:
> Why does glibc have its own definitions for the fcntl F_* cmd values
> instead of using the ones in the uapi kernel headers? Would it not be
> simpler to just have the fcntl.h include those instead of duplicating
> them?
The uapi headers are useless for user space. They refer to CONFIG_*
macros, and don't have suitable namespace control.
Andreas.
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