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Header files for kernel and glibc


> 
> On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 12:01:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I thought glibc had moved away from using kernel header files already. 
> > I've talked about this to various people before, and that was one of the
> > advantages with glibc as far as I was concerned. 
> 
> We're about 95% kernel-header-free. 
> 
> Most of the problems wind up being in user programs that poke at
> kernel headers behind glibc's back -- like this gdb thing HJ posted
> that started this whole thread.
> 

I will fix the glibc x86 header files for <sys/user.h> and
<sys/ptrace.h>.  I will add <sys/reg.h> for x86. I will send in
a glibc patch in a day or two.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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