On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 08:50:34AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 02:48:29PM +0900, SODA Noriyuki wrote:
> > Well, there is another thing which has to be considered. That is
> > name space pollution.
> > Header files which are exported to userland (for userland visible APIs)
> > should not export random symbols. Only symbols which are defined as
> > the interface of the header file are allowed to be exported.
>
> Indeed. Properly speaking though, headers that are exported to
> userland should define only the precise symbols that userland needs;
> kernel-only material should be kept elsewhere.
One start would be to add a sys/proc_internal.h so that sys/proc
can be reduced to only stuff that userspace and some kernel parts
are really expected to use.
David
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