linux/xattr.h and sys/xattr.h conflicts

[Allan McRae]

On 06/01/14 09:21, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 05 January 2014 17:45:53 Allan McRae wrote:
>> I agree.   But I also think the incompatibility between headers is a bug
>> that needs fixed.  So I'd like to fix that as the first step.
> 
> we have the same issue with ptrace (and probably many other headers).  
> Carlos/David's work on making the net headers play nicely together is probably 
> the model we want to standardize & document & deploy.


I just spent some time going over the work with the net headers.  For
reference, here are the patches:

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00208.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-08/msg00209.html

There is quite good documentation of the process added in
<linux/libc-compat.h>, but I think a wiki page would be good too.  I'll
try and get that started soon.

Now that the groundwork has been done, extending this for other headers
should be relatively easy. So I'll take that approach to the xattr.h
conflicts.

Allan