linux-kernel - Re: include/linux/xattr.h: how much userpace visible?

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:58:53 +0200
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@...puter.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Nathan Scott <nathans@....com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, James Morris <jmorris@...hat.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: include/linux/xattr.h: how much userpace visible?

On Monday, 24 July 2006 20:45, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> The userspace headers are supposed to hold the part of the kernel
> definitions that glibc (and mayby the attr package) uses. If they happen
> to have their own copy now should not impct the decision what is part of
> the userspace interface for the kernel. So actual usage does not decide
> what is part of the userspace kernel headers but what definitionas are
> definitions the userspace <-> kernel interface.

Sure, fine by me.

Andreas
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