linux-kernel - Re: maybe headers(linux/aio.h) bug ?

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Date:	Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:30:08 +0800
From:	"Dongsheng Song" <dongsheng.song@...il.com>
To:	"Michael Poole" <mdpoole@...ilus.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: maybe headers(linux/aio.h) bug ?

But the current C library's AIO support does not use Linux's AIO, if I
use Linux AIO, the only way is define my io_event, iocb, aio_context_t
types, isn't it ?

2006/10/12, Michael Poole <mdpoole@...ilus.org>:
> Dongsheng Song writes:
>
> > Whenever I include linux aio header,  the compile errors occured:
> >
> > $  cat test.c
> > #include <linux/types.h>
> > #include <linux/unistd.h>
> > #include <linux/aio.h>
>
> Including kernel header files directly from userspace is not supported
> and is almost always (some just say "always") a very bad idea.  If you
> want to use the C library's AIO support, use its <aio.h> header.
>
> Michael Poole
>
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