capability headers question

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Sun Apr 22 12:35:00 GMT 2001


Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> writes:

> In article < 20010422212218.A27646@ikar.t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl > you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Problem with glibc 2.2.2 vs kernel 2.4 (2.2 is ok) headers:
> >
> > #include <string.h>
> > #include <sys/capability.h>
> >
> > int main() { return 0; }
> >
> > [gcc barfs on kernel headers]
> >
> >
> > Compilation with -O0 is ok. My question is: glibc, kernel headers or my simple
> > program is bad (ie missing some include file) ?
> 
> AFAICS neither.  It seems to a problem of libcap to which <sys/capability.h>
> belongs to (why?  this code should be in libc, IMHO).

I've contacted the authors of libcap several times but never got a
real answer.  AFAIK the didn't consider the interface stable enough
for inclusion into glibc.

> It shouldn't include kernel headers at all but have a known good copy instead.

Exactly.

Andreas
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