Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

[Arjan van de Ven]

> First off, I think we need a system-call that will return some of
> the information that now comes from headers. PAGE_SIZE comes to
> mind. You need this for mmap() but there doesn't seem to be any
> way to get it. getpagesize() 'C' library just returns something
> it's swiped from kernel headers when the library was compiled.
> There are other things like the following that sometimes need

for getpagesize() I can see the point

> to be known also.
> 
>  	HZ

HZ may not exist. At all; people are trying to remove it. And userspace
has no business knowing about it either.
>  	TASK_SIZE
what for?

>  	SMP
userspace should not care! Any app that looks at this is buggy; remember
the fully preemptable nature of userspace

>  	Number of errno values

why?

>  	Highest ioctl value used

uhh that;s driver dependent.. and what for ?


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