netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Support inclusion of <linux/socket.h> before <sys/socket.h>

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Date:	Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:24:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, waldi@...ian.org, manuel@...ian.org,
	538372@...s.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Support inclusion of <linux/socket.h> before
 <sys/socket.h>

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:42:44 +0100

> From: Bastian Blank <waldi@...ian.org>
> 
> The following user-space program fails to compile:
> 
>     #include <linux/socket.h>
>     #include <sys/socket.h>
>     int main() { return 0; }
> 
> The reason is that <linux/socket.h> tests __GLIBC__ to decide whether it
> should define various structures and macros that are now defined for
> user-space by <sys/socket.h>, but __GLIBC__ is not defined if no libc
> headers have yet been included.
> 
> It seems safe to drop support for libc 5 now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Fair enough, applied to net-2.6, thanks.
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