On 11/23/05, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Gifford wrote: > > Matt, > > I should also mention Ryan is working on a way for us to santize our > > own headers. > > > Please excuse my ignorance, but why do we need to sanitize the kernel > headers? What's wrong with using the headers in the kernel source? > Andy
One reason is that the headers in the kernel source include all the internal kernel definitions. As I understand it, it's bad form for userland apps to be using internal kernel interfaces (with the exception of glibc). The sanitized headers give a subset of the definitions appropriate for userland. See Q3 of the llh FAQ: http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/doc/FAQ Someone else probably knows a lot better reasons, too. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
