Support for Linux transparent proxy & asm/types.h
Andi Kleen
ak@muc.de
Wed Dec 23 11:13:00 GMT 1998
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 05:20:41PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> On a related topic: I currently give this synopsis line for netlink sockets:
>
> #include <linux/netlink.h>
> nl_socket = socket(PF_NETLINK, ....);
>
> To compile that snippet on glibc systems #include <asm/types.h> is needed.
> Does glibc gurantee in future version that asm/types.h will continue to
> work?
>
> No, we can't guarantee this since Linus doesn't want to commit himself
> to keeping the Linux headers namespace clean. So programs that
> compile against glibc should not include any Linux headers (i.e. no
> #include <asm/foo.h> or #include <linux/foo.h>). If glibc doesn't
> provide a header (i.e. #include <sys/foo.h>), the programmer is
> supposed to copy the needed defenitions from the appropriate Linux
> header to a private header and use that.
You want me to suggest that in the man page?
Sounds like a horrible kludge. I'll surely not do that.
-Andi
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