Re: missing(?) headers

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 05:12:32PM +0200, Felix von Leitner wrote:
> Thus spake Laurent Bercot ([email protected]):
> > > asm-generic is not part of glibc.  Those are kernel headers.
> > > I suggest using the kernel headers for now.
> >  So glibc and uClibc are #including some kernel headers at some point,
> > if only to get SO_* definitions.
> >  What is your policy about #including kernel headers in the diet libc's
> > headers, so userland programs don't have to ?
> >  (My view is that a userland program should never have to #include
> > kernel headers directly.)
> 
> In the beginning I included kernel headers as well, but then I asked
> Linus on the kernel mailing list and he said he does not want user space
> to include kernel headers, period, so I stopped doing it.

Nowadays Linux has a headers_install target which cleans up
the kernel headers for use by userspace.

Johannes