This is the mail archive of the libc-ports@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the libc-ports project.

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: Duplicate ustat structure

On 7/16/06, Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 06:39:15PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> > The problem is that bits/ustat.h includes the definition of struct
> > ustat.  However, sys/types.h eventually winds up pulling in
> > linux/types.h which also defines struct ustat.
>
> <sys/types.h> should not include <linux/types.h> in the first place.

It seems like it ought to now that the kernel is exporting a set of
headers that are intended to be used by userspace.  struct ustat is
defined in linux/types.h.


In which case this patch should go upstream to libc-alpha, where the
generic version of ustat.h should be changed.

Cheers,
Carlos.

Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]