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Message-Id: <1163438525.15249.181.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:22:04 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Zack Weinberg <zackw@...ix.com>
Cc:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, jmorris@...ei.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] permission mapping for sys_syslog operations

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 09:17 -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On 11/13/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 01:29 -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > > I thought the point of the "unifdef" thing was that it made a version
> > > of the header with the __KERNEL__ section ripped out, for copying into
> > > /usr/include, so you didn't have to do that ...
> >
> > yes it is, however it's mostly for existing stuff/seamless transition.
> > It's a hack :)
> > If you can avoid it lets do so; you already have the nice clean header,
> > so lets not go backwards... you HAVE the clean separation.
> 
> ok, but I gotta ask that you tell me what to name the internal header,
> I can't think of anything that isn't ugly.

klog.h vs klogd.h ? or klog_api.h for the user one ?

(and yes I suck at names even more than you do ;)

> 
> zw
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