linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend] uapi/linux/keyctl.h: don't use C++ reserved keyword as a struct member name

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Message-ID: <19867.1537574620@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Sat, 22 Sep 2018 01:03:40 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] uapi/linux/keyctl.h: don't use C++ reserved keyword as a struct member name

Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Are there such programs?  Do they reference the `private' field?

They would use the keyutils.h header from keyutils package probably.  There
the field was named "priv" not "private".  The kernel's UAPI header should be
amended again to match that.

David