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

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Message-ID: <87wt7567g9.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org>
Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:32:06 -0400
From:	Michael Poole <mdpoole@...ilus.org>
To:	"Dongsheng Song" <dongsheng.song@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: maybe headers(linux/aio.h) bug ?

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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