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Message-id: <46277C06.4020602@shaw.ca>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:26:14 -0600
From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To: liangbowen <liangbowen@...il.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: problem with <asm/semaphore.h>
liangbowen wrote:
>> You're trying to use a kernel data structure in a user-space program.
>> Don't. The definitions in that header are inside #ifdef __KERNEL__ and
>> so the provided userspace headers remove that part.
>
> someone've said the exact same thing, and he said that I can add the -
> D__KERNEL__ to the compilation options,
> but I can't see any #ifdef __KERNEL__ macro in that header(<asm/
> semaphore.h>).
> Is my header differ from yours?
>
It's because the userspace headers have been processed with unifdef to
remove any sections which are inside #ifdef __KERNEL__, since userspace
apps are not supposed to see those sections.
I'm not sure why you want to use a semaphore in a userspace program.
Even if you can get it to compile, they definitely won't function
properly. Aside from the legal issues (using internal kernel code like
that would make your program a derived work of the kernel and thus
covered under the GPL).
--
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