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Re: stricter Linux headers
- To: Jack Howarth <howarth at bromo dot med dot uc dot edu>
- Subject: Re: stricter Linux headers
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 24 Oct 2000 17:48:01 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200010250026.RAA02411@bromo.med.uc.edu>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu> writes:
> Geoff are of the opinion that we should create a sys/cdrom.h
> header in glibc to correct this situation. Do you think this is doable
> (Geoff is supposed to be preparing the header I think) in
> the time frame for glibc 2.2?
I don't know where asm/byteorder.h is used (haven't looked) but it
seems to be no good idea in the first place. It should not be
necessary ro introduce sys/byteorder.h or so.
Adding cdrom.h to glibc is a pain. The file is changed far too often
and I have not the slightest interest to follow the all the changes
and make releases just because somebody introduced a new ioctl.
Programs which use this header should have it included in the sources.
Alternatively a package closely following the kernel could provide
these kind of headers.
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