Re: Recent binutils releases and linux kernel 2.5.69+

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@lst.de)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 03:51:43 EST


On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:59:40AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > > This is a kernel issue and should be fixed in kernel unless we want
> > > > to do something in <sys/sysctl.h>.
> > >
> > > You should not include kernel headers from userspace.
> >
> > Old story I know but I dont think binutils would use kernel headers if it
> > doesnt need it.
> >
>
> <sys/sysctl.h> includes <linux/sysctl.h>. That is what I meant by "do
> something in <sys/sysctl.h>."

I know. and <linux/sysctl.h> is a kernel header libc shouldn't include.
So you want to do something to <sys/sysctl.h>, namely get rid of it's
depency on kernel headers.

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