Re: linux-nfs-0.4.21 for Alpha glibc

Martin von Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Thu, 1 Jan 1998 17:31:09 +0100


> I would really like to see include/linux contain only the definitions
> that can be visible to user space. I don't like going into
> /usr/include/linux and seeing thousands of lines of hardware
> bit definitions.

This would not be in the Unix tradition. Traditionally,
/usr/include/sys already has all the kernel header files, or at least
a large part of it. Linux already deviates from this, as
/usr/include/sys is entirely controlled by the C library.

I'm not saying that one approach is better than the other, as I think
this is a matter of taste. What really matters is what happens when
user applications do include stuff of <linux/*.h>.

Regards,
Martin