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

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Message-ID: <45E36D76.5030507@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:29:58 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@...puter.org>,
	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?

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.

glibc, or another libc.

Basically, the kernel should be able to export the things that userspace 
needs to be able to correctly speak the ABI.

	-hpa
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